Grand Scale Pair Of Handyside Campana Urns & Plinths C.1880

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HANURN1

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£5,500.00 For the Pair

€6,516 Euro
$7,256 US Dollar

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A huge and striking and pair of oversized Campana Urns with satyrs masks from the renowned English Foundry the Andrew Handyside Company (Britannia Iron Works, Derby) c.1880

The campana style urn on its associated pedestal has decorative open loop and double satyrs mask handles on a deeply gadrooned bowl set upon a raised spreading socle foot. The body with a lobed everted rim.

Cast iron with layers of historical paint, the most recent being pale grey.

The Classical references of the satyrs hark back to the influence of Roman antiquity and is channeled through such decorative garden pieces, designed to bring formality and ornamental symmetry to your garden.  
Andrew Handyside bought the Britannia Iron Works in 1848, and manufactured several ornamental vases in classical purity, form and ornament. Receiving distinctions at the Great Exhibition in 1850, the quality of their casts were exceptional and became more exceptional with time.

Composite plinths included with urns.
With historical losses and repairs consummate with age.

Height of urns 78 cm. Plinth size 62 cm high x 52 cm wide and deep.

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