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PAIR OF SWAN HANDLES CAST IRON URNS, EARLY 20TH C. Date: EARLY 20TH CENTURY Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair of swan handled cast iron urns with floral swags, on octagonal bases, professionally cleaned and painted white. The large detailed swan design handles are unusual and very attractive. 28"H. 22"W. Early 20th century. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
PASSION FLOWER BENCH, CAST IRON, Antique Date: Circa 1950 Price: Please contact us for price Description: PASSION FLOWER BENCH, CAST IRON, EARLY 20TH C. PAINTED TEAL GREEN. A BEAUTIFUL CURVED CASTING OF THIS BOTANICAL PATTERN WITH BIRD HEADS ON ARMS AND HOOF FEET. ILLEGEBLE FOUNDRY MARK IN CASTING ON ARM. 32"H. 37"W. 31"D. SOLD Part of our collection of: Benches in Garden Antiques | |
PAIR RUSTIC PATTERN IRON BENCHES, ANTIQUE Date: late 19th or early 20th c. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Rare pair of antique cast iron benches in the Rustic or Twig pattern, one of the early 19th century cast iron botanical designs of oak branches and leaves and side stretchers of entwined snakes, the seat formed by long curved knotted branches. Professionally cleaned and repainted in a verdigris color. 31"H. 35'W. 24"D. A Rustic Twig bench is featured in the current Mint Museum Uptown exhibit in Norfolk, VA. "The Art of Seating", seeing chairs as works of art. Part of our collection of: Benches in Garden Antiques | |
PAIR CAST IRON URNS, ANTIQUE Date: late 19th or very early 20th c. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair of beautifully detailed antique cast iron garden urns, with decorative rims and also beading on the socle below the bowl. Professional minor repairs, cleaned and repainted gloss black. Late 19th or early 20th c. 17"H. 24"W. 9 1/2"square base. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
PAIR OVAL LATTICE PLANTER POTS, CAST STONE Date: mid 20th c. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair of oval cast stone lattice planter pots with black stone aggregate. 7"H. 18"W. 14"D. Unusual form in lattice pots to add to a collection. Early 20th century. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
PAIR ZINC PAW FOOT STANDS, ANTIQUE Date: late 19 or early 20th c. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair heavy zinc paw footed stands, antique. Would be handsome and unusual pedestals topped with stone for statuary. 26"H. 18"square. Part of our collection of: Architectural in Garden Antiques | |
PAIR CAST STONE URNS WITH LARGE LEAVES Date: Vintage Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair of large cast stone garden urns with upright vertical leaves encircling the bowl and stone aggregate decoration. Vintage. 17"H. 20"W. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
LATTICE URNS, PAIR LARGE CAST STONE Date: mid 20th c. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair of large cast stone lattice pattern urns with stone aggregate. Perfect to display large plants or trees. Weathered surface. 18 1/2"H. 24"W. Ask for price. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
PAIR HORIZONTAL CAST IRON URNS, ANTIQUE Date: Late 19th century early 20th C. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair antique cast iron jardinieres or trough planters with fine detail to casting, late 19th or early 20th century. This curvilinear form is unusual and attractive. 11"H. 27"W. !4"D. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
PAIR LARGE CAST IRON URNS, ANTIQUE Date: Late 19th century early 20th C. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair of unusual large cast iron garden urns, with lobed bowls and upright handles, antique, late 19th century 38"H. 24"W. These urns relate to French urns with similar handles shown in the circa 1870 trade catalog of The Societe Anonyme des Hauts-Forneaux & Fonderies du Val d'Osne, a group of designers and founders in France. J.W. Fiske Iron Wks. New York also made a similar urn with and without handles. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
MEDICI URN, ANTIQUE CAST IRON, LABELED JANES BEEBE & CO. Date: Circa 1850 Price: Please contact us for price Description: The classic design of this urn is called the Medici Urn, after a marble bell shaped urn sculpted in Athens 1st century AD as a garden ornament and now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This cast iron example of the Medici urn's bowl is decorated in high relief with Greek figures in a procession. The rim of the bowl is labeled with the the name Janes Beebe & Co. This 1850's foundry was located in Manhattan and then moved to the Bronx,N.Y. By 1859 the name was changed to Janes, Fowler, Kirkland & Company and they won the contract to replace the dome of the U.S. Capital Building with a new cast iron dome. The work was done at their foundry in the Bronx, N.Y. through out the Civil War. The Janes Beebe & Co. label dates this Medici urn to the 1850's. The socle of the urn on a square base is labeled Walbridge & Co. Buffalo, N.Y. so is a replacement. The urn has been professionally cleaned and repainted. 49 1/2"H. 23 1/2"W. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
SET OF TWO SCHINKEL BENCHES and TWO CHAIRS Date: Late 19th century early 20th C. Price: Please contact us for price Description: Rare large set of two cast iron benches and two arm chairs after Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) the Prussian neo-classical architect who designed this pattern for the Roman Baths in Potsdam Park in 1835. He was the architect to the King of Prussia. The design was influenced by the early Roman furniture discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 18th century. The motif of the back panel is a scrolled lyre flanked by classical winged figures. Note the ram's head arm terminals and cloven hoofed feet. Late 19th or early 20th century. Benches: 31 1/2"H. 44"W. 19"D. Chairs: 31 1/2"H. 25 1/2"W. These pieces have been professionally cleaned and repainted. The late fashion designer Gianni Versace had furniture in this design in his showroom. A cast iron chair in this design by Schinkel is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and also illustrated and discussed in "Cast Iron From Central Europe" 1800-1850 from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts and the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. ' Part of our collection of: Benches in Garden Antiques | |
FINIALS, ANTIQUE PAIR, PATINATED COPPER Date: early 20th century Price: Please contact us for price Description: Pair of fabulous large antique copper cupola finials 60"H. 60"W. Circa 1910. In excellent condition with beautiful original verdigris patina. Perfect for garden gazebos, pavilions or other garden buildings. SOLD Part of our collection of: Architectural in Garden Antiques | |
LARGE ANTIQUE CAST IRON URN ON HIGH PEDESTAL Date: Late 19th century Price: Please contact us for price Description: Two part antique cast iron garden urn with large ribbed bowl with egg and dart border decoration, sitting on high tapering plinth, the sides decorated with design of a raised decorative urn, and lower border of base decorated on each side with a swag and tassel design. 19th century American. This urn has been professionally cleaned and painted verdigris green. Consider the use of a single urn as a dramatic focal point in your garden--at the end of a path or at the intersection of two garden paths. 36"H. 22"W.bowl 18"square base. Very similar in design to urn #16215. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques | |
LARGE ANTIQUE CAST IRON URN, WITH URN AND SWAG DECORATION Date: Late 19th century Price: Please contact us for price Description: Large antique two part cast iron garden urn with large wide ribbed bowl with egg and dart border, resting on high tapering plinth decorated with raised design of urn, and swag decoration around lower base. 19th century. This urn has been professionally cleaned and painted a verdigris green color. 34"H. 21"W.bowl 17"D. base. A important single urn becomes a dramatic focal point at the end of a path or intersection of two garden paths, with or without plantings. Part of our collection of: Planters/Urns in Garden Antiques |