A pair of Handyside foundry cast iron garden urns on stands
A pair of Handyside cast iron garden urns with fluting, on turned socle and square plinth. On matching cast iron pedestal. This model is illustrated in the Handyside foundry catalogue published in the mid 19th century as number 6 (see engraving)
Dimensions: Pedestals 62 cms high, urns 76 cm high, total height: 138 cms; diameter at the top 59 cms.
Condition: Very good condition, repainted black
Reference: AH041998/1022S
Literature:
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.