A pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinth

A pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinthA pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinthA pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinthA pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinthA pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinthA pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinthA pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinthA pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns on plinth

A pair of cast iron Handyside foundry garden urns, 19th century: of campana form, the body decorated with a foliate frieze and everted egg and dart rim, with mask and loop handles, on rising fluted circular foot and square raised base, 67 cms high (original height of urn being 62 cm)----on a low stone rising plinth, 38 x 38 cms square and 23 cms high; total height 90 cms. This model is illustrated in the Handyside foundry catalogue of 1880 as number N°1 Small (see engraving)

Dimensions: 90 cms high

Condition: good overall condition

Reference: renPHIL

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Andrew Handyside started the foundry in 1806 and by 1851 the firm had expanded and was operating out of the Britannia Iron Works in Derby. At the Great Exhibition they exhibited a Medici vase, a bacchanalian vase and a bronzed vase decorated with busts of Peel, Nelson, Watt, Wellington, Stephenson, Scott, Shakespeare and Milton, together with a fountain. At the time, the foundry was described as being from the magnitude of its operations, second to none in England. They produced three catalogues, in 1848,1874 and 1880.