Live Auction 5447The Sunday Sale
A FRENCH GOTHIC-STYLE GREEN-PAINTED CAST IRON GARDEN BENCH
Lot 59

A FRENCH GOTHIC-STYLE GREEN-PAINTED CAST IRON GARDEN BENCH

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed20 March 2011

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GBP 2,125

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A FRENCH GOTHIC-STYLE GREEN-PAINTED CAST IRON GARDEN BENCH
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The back formed as quatrefoils within foliate tracery
35 1/3 in. (89.5 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 191./4 in. (48.7 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The design for this Bench is illustrated in the 1858 Barbezat & Cie Fonderies du Val d'Osne Catalogue, under 'Bancs de Jardin', pl. 251. (see J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 280. pl.6:31 and 6:32 and G. Himmelheber, Cast-Iron Furniture: and All Other Forms of Iron Furniture, Munich, 1996, pl. 83).