Garden Urns: A pair of extremely rare Handyside Foundry cast iron urns on pedestals 2nd half 19th century 104cm.; 41ins high overall 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 very rare model appears in the mid 19th century catalogue of Andrew Handyside and Co.^ no 26. (See engraving).
Garden Urns: A pair of extremely rare Handyside Foundry cast iron urns on pedestals 2nd half 19th century 104cm.; 41ins high overall 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 very rare model appears in the mid 19th century catalogue of Andrew Handyside and Co.^ no 26. (See engraving).
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