A pair of cast iron urns on pedestals attributed to the Handyside foundry
second half 19th century
122cm high by 96cm diameter
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£4,000 - £6,000
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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 two catalogues in 1848 and 1874.
This model is illustrated in the 1848 Handyside catalogue no 5a See engraving
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