A pair of cast iron urns on pedestals attributed to Handyside
2nd half 19th century 125cm.; 49ins high Andrew Handyside opened the Britannia Iron Works, Derby in 1851. At the Great Exhibition they exhibited Medici vases, bacchanalian vase and a bronzed vase decorated with busts of Peel, Nelson, Watt, Wellington, Stephenson, Scott, Shakespeare and Milton, and a fountain that at the time was described as being |from the magnitude of its operations is second to none in England|. They produced two catalogues the later one in 1874, showing a wide range of cast iron urns and fountains all of which are of high quality but most are unmarked and are identifiable from their catalogues only. This urn is illustrated in the 1874 Handyside catalogue, No 2. It is unusual in having the scrolling foliate frieze and lobed rim cast separately which heightens the relief and detail.
A pair of cast iron urns on pedestals attributed to Handyside
2nd half 19th century 125cm.; 49ins high Andrew Handyside opened the Britannia Iron Works, Derby in 1851. At the Great Exhibition they exhibited Medici vases, bacchanalian vase and a bronzed vase decorated with busts of Peel, Nelson, Watt, Wellington, Stephenson, Scott, Shakespeare and Milton, and a fountain that at the time was described as being |from the magnitude of its operations is second to none in England|. They produced two catalogues the later one in 1874, showing a wide range of cast iron urns and fountains all of which are of high quality but most are unmarked and are identifiable from their catalogues only. This urn is illustrated in the 1874 Handyside catalogue, No 2. It is unusual in having the scrolling foliate frieze and lobed rim cast separately which heightens the relief and detail.
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