Antique Garden Furniture: Ornaments, Statues & Fountains
Our collection of antique garden furniture, antique fountains, outdoor ornaments and garden statues.
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Stock: 16178
SET OF THREE LARGE SCOTTISH FIRECLAY GARDEN URNS 19TH CENTURY
campana form with leaf tip moulded rims and part-lobed bodies with loop handles, on socle bases, two mounted on square plinth bases, one stamped GARNKIRK; together with a FIRECLAY PART URN, of similar manufacture
Dimensions:each of the three urns 75cm high, 55cm diameter
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21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
29 1⁄2"
75 cms |
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Stock: 15538
A pair of Victorian fireclay planters of canted rectangular form, perfect for use on a bay window. They are topped with scallop shell decoration and are also embellished with trailing roses and female masks
English, c.1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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65 3⁄8"
166 cms |
10 3⁄16"
26 cms |
18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,250 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15934
A pair of large 19th century carrara marble urns. The boldly carved urns are twin handled, with high relief acanthus leaves around the body of the urn on a canted square base. They could be used either as garden or indoor urns.
English, c.1880.
One of two pairs available with stock no. 15935.
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Diameter |
Height |
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| Including handles |
16 7⁄8"
43 cms |
12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15818
A rare antique terracotta sundial attributed to the Compton Pottery of Guildford. The sundial comprises a putto holding the dial and this is mounted on a Tuscan column.
A Sundial of this type would have been used by garden designers such as Gertrude Jeckyll for her Arts and Crafts style gardens, and would look fabulous in a number of settings.
English, c. 1910.
Photo before restoration.
Notes: The Compton Pottery was a well-regarded pottery specialising in garden pots and ornamentation. They received commissions from well known figures, including Lutyens, and their work was stocked at Liberty and Co. It was founded by Mary Watts in 1900, and they operated until 1956.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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18 7⁄8"
48 cms |
48"
122 cms |
18 7⁄8"
48 cms |
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Stock: 12853
A pair of late Victorian cast iron urns of fluted, squat campana form with egg and dart moulded borders, on square bases.
English, circa 1880.
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Diameter |
Height |
Base |
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21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
14 3⁄8"
36.5 cms |
9 1⁄8"
23.2 cms |
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Stock: 13151
A pair of Victorian terracotta campana garden urns on Doulton plinths, the urns with scalloped and fluted sides and rims mounted on elegantly understated plinths.
English Circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
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| urns |
17 11⁄16"
45 cms |
21 1⁄4"
54 cms |
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| bases |
15"
38 cms |
23 3⁄16"
59 cms |
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Stock: 15935
A pair of large 19th century carrara marble urns. The boldly carved urns are twin handled, with high relief acanthus leaves around the body of the urn on a canted square base. They could be used for either garden or indoor urns.
English, c.1880.
One of two pairs available with stock no. 15934.
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Diameter |
Height |
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19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
14 5⁄8"
37 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15887
An antique buff terracotta gadrooned single urn of a good size, perfect as a planter when stood on a plinth. We have a number of suitable plinths that could be used in combination with this urn, to make it a gorgeous garden centrepiece.
English, c.1880.
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Diamter |
Height |
Base |
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18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
16 7⁄8"
43 cms |
8 11⁄16"
22.2 cms |
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Listed Price: £960 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 9191
A pair Carrara marble plinths, carved in low relief, with lion masks, armorial shields and foliate motifs. Would work wonderfully as garden ornaments, or as plinths for urns or other statuary.
Italian, 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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7 13⁄16"
19.8 cms |
35 3⁄8"
90 cms |
7 1⁄8"
18 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15831
A pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) sancai-glazed ridge tiles modelled as horse and rider. Both tiles are glazed in rich green and amber, the horses in a rich amber and the riders wearing green robes.
Tiles of this kind were often used on public and private buildings to ward off evil spirits. The work of glazed tiles is known in China as Liuli Wa, literally `roof-tile of glass`, a term dating back to the Tang Dynasty. According to traditional Chinese beliefs, roofs are a platform of communication between the world of the living and the realm of the spirits.
Chinese, late 15th - early 16th century.
Sancai means three glazes, the basic colours of this glaze are green, cream and amber, but more colours were sometimes used. It was a lead glaze and the addition of metal oxides created the limited palate of green and amber and sometimes blue. In the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907 AD), grave goods were often glazed in this manner and there was a resurgence in popularity for this glaze in the Ming period.
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Stock: 15724
A large and finely carved 19th century Italian marble lidded urn, decorated with trailing grape vines and and dramatic handles, modelled as grinning and horned satyrs. The body of the urn is carved with two cartouches, one depicting a nymph bathing in a pool whilst a satyr observes, hidden by bullrushes. The other depicts an a satyr and a goat in an amorous and playful embrace. After the antique.
Italian, c.1850.
Could be situated in a sheltered spot in a garden or courtyard, but equally suited to an interior setting.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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28"
71 cms |
40"
101.5 cms |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
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Stock: 15598
An 18th century bronze sundial, the dial plate inscribed Bywater Dawson & Co. Liverpool, on a substantial 19th century cast iron base, mounted on a millstone.
English, 18th century with 19th century base.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| without stone base |
12 5⁄8"
32 cms |
53 1⁄8"
135 cms |
12 5⁄8"
32 cms |
| with stone base |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
61"
155 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,600 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15646
A life size Victorian lead statue depicting a putto carrying a mask, perhaps tragedy.
English, mid-19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
31 7⁄8"
81 cms |
9 13⁄16"
25 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15516
A set of four Victorian cast iron garden chairs, with spoon backs featuring crisply cast decoration above circular seats cast with a radiating circular pattern and resting on elaborate cabriole shaped legs. This is not an identical set, as is formed form 2 very similar pairs. Very much in the Coalbrookdale style, and would work well as a patio set as they are very heavy.
English, c.1880
Photographs before restoration.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
32 1⁄4"
82 cms |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,250 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 14348
A large cast iron garden planter, with raised Baroque motifs to the sides. Originally once a Victorian water tank. Un-restored. English, circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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34"
86.3 cms |
22"
55.8 cms |
14 1⁄2"
36.8 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11367
A pair of Victorian arched ceramic parapets. They would be an attractive addition to a garden. Some chips a/f.
Provenance: 298 Bishopsgate in the City Of London built between 1877-1890 and demolished in 1980.
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Height |
depth |
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18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
14 5⁄8"
37 cms |
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Listed Price: £750 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 14023
An early 20th century large lead garden figure of a Naiad, a water nymph, seated on a rocky outcrop. Naiads in Greek mythology were water spirits or nymphs who were said to preside over fresh water fountains, wells, springs, streams and brooks. English, circa 1910.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
8 11⁄16"
22 cms |
21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
9 13⁄16"
25 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15138
A suite of 20th century Coalbrookdale style garden seats consisting of a pair of chairs and a two seater bench. Entwined serpents and vines enhance the cast iron bench ends with hand rests terminating in hound dog heads. The back and seats are hardwood possibly mahogany. English, mid 20th century.
Photo before restoration.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| Larger |
56 1⁄4"
143 cms |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
23 5⁄8"
60 cms |
| Smaller |
25 5⁄8"
65 cms |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12034
A pair of elegant and large Portland Stone antique garden plinths with half round attached baluster apothecary bottles to either side.
English, circa 1900.
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width |
height |
depth |
| Top |
15 7⁄8"
40.5 cms |
28 11⁄16"
73 cms |
15 7⁄8"
40.5 cms |
| Bottom |
24 13⁄16"
63 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 14778
An Arts and Crafts stone bird bath or garden ornament. The wide bowl rests on carved effigies of three angels pointing to heaven supported by a stone socle plinth. Around the foot of the plinth are the Gratias Tibi Domine (Thanks be to God) and the initials G K & D.
English, 19th century.
Photos before restoration.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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31 1⁄2"
80 cms |
49 5⁄8"
126 cms |
31 1⁄2"
80 cms |
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Stock: 11889
A cast lead garden figure of a curly haired child, in the 18th century manner of John Cheere, with hand to ear and head inclined listening perhaps to birdsong and raised on a spreading circular socle base. Possibly made at the H. Crowther, Foundry in Chiswick, London.
English, early 20th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
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11 13⁄16"
30 cms |
26"
66 cms |
9 3⁄8"
24 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11203
A green painted wrought iron four seater Victorian garden bench in the Georgian manner. Photo before restoration.
English, circa 1890.
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width |
height |
depth |
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72"
183 cms |
13 3⁄8"
34 cms |
12 5⁄8"
32 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13277
A large Edwardian terracotta garden urn attributed to the Garnick Fireclay Company, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The body with ribbon-tied oak leaf bands on lobed undersides above a waisted socle and square section base, the base stamped with the name Garnick. Probably once one of a pair.
Scottish, early 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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26 3⁄8"
67 cms |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
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Stock: 14868
A monumental Regency stoneware urn, in the manner of the antique. This magnificent urn recalls the form of an Ancient Greek krater - a large vessel for mixing wine. The entire urn is dedicated to the God of Wine Bacchus (Dionysus), with a band of fruiting vines to the neck, underneath which is high-relief frieze depicting a Bacchic procession or thiasus, with revellers carrying cups of wine, bunches of grapes and the other trappings of a hedonistic feast. The serpents fashioned into handles are characteristic of Bacchic iconography and they are often associated with Bacchus, as Maenads - female followers of the God - wore snakes in their hair.
This urn is unlike any other we have come across, but echoes the popularity of themes from classical antiquity, made even more popular by the phenomenon of the Grand Tour. The great engraver and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi even produced an engraved volume solely dedicated to the designs of urns in the antique style. He then manufactured urns in his Italian workshops. In England, the famous manufacturer Eleanor Coade and designers such as Thomas Hope also produced urns in the antique manner for an eager public.
The urn is made from a weather impervious stoneware, similar to the famous Coade stone. Restoration to the handles has been carried out.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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29 7⁄8"
76 cms |
57 7⁄8"
147 cms |
32 11⁄16"
83 cms |
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18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
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Stock: 15137
A 20th century Coalbrookdale style garden bench. Entwined serpents and vines enhance the cast iron bench ends with hand rests terminating in hound dog heads. The back and seat are hardwood possibly mahogany.
English, mid 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| Larger |
56 1⁄4"
143 cms |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
23 5⁄8"
60 cms |
| Smaller |
25 5⁄8"
65 cms |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,600 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 7604
A pair of large restored terracotta lions modelled in the Baroque manner, seated on bases which are stamped, ‘Fabrique de Lapujade, Ouvriers Associes, Ses de Negrier, Toulouse.’ With restorations. French, 19th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
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18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
33"
83.8 cms |
20"
50.8 cms |
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Stock: 15004
An elegant white painted Regency wrought iron garden seat with an oval and arched sectioned back above a slatted seat with curled feet and a bowed cross-stretcher. English, early 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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70 1⁄8"
178 cms |
38 5⁄8"
98 cms |
29 7⁄8"
76 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12729
A Heraldic limestone lion wall tablet carved in high relief with a shield of arms bearing three lion heads & surmounted by a demi-rampant lion holding a cross. English possibly French, 18th/19th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
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22 3⁄8"
57 cms |
38 3⁄16"
97 cms |
8 11⁄16"
22 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 3760
A pair of octagonal mid 20th century reconstituted stone urns in the Neoclassical style with carved foliate detail raised on small socles. English, mid 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
22"
56 cms |
15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,150 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 9444
A pair of antique Greek Revival Anthymion panels carved in Portland Stone in the English Regency style. English, early 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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24"
61 cms |
21 1⁄4"
54 cms |
3 7⁄8"
10 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,300 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 14717
A large pair of Scottish glazed stoneware Campan style garden urns. The wide brimmed bowls with linked egg and dart detail above gadrooned stems raised on stepped bases resting on sturdy reeded column stands.
Scottish late 19th early 20th century.
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Diameter |
Overall Height |
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| urns |
32 11⁄16"
83 cms |
23 3⁄16"
59 cms |
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18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
28"
71 cms |
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Stock: 9618
A red sandstone column and capital, adorned with putti and festoons. Scottish, 18th Century.
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width / depth |
height |
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20 1⁄8"
51 cms |
39 3⁄8"
100 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13551
A set of four highly ornate and elegant cast iron Victorian antique garden or conservatory chairs in the Rococo style with oval shaped acanthus scrolled backs, detatchable seats and quadruple splayed legs. English, circa 1850.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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20 1⁄8"
51 cms |
38 5⁄8"
98 cms |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
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Stock: 12765
A nineteenth century cast iron public drinking fountain the lion mask spout above a fluted drip bowl as found.
English 19th century. Before restoration.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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15"
38 cms |
38"
96.5 cms |
15"
38 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11429
A pair of Victorian recumbent antique terracotta garden lions raised on moulded bases - one base is damaged and they have once been painted and stripped - as found.
English,19th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
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25 5⁄8"
65 cms |
14 5⁄8"
37 cms |
9 13⁄16"
25 cms |
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Antique Garden Furniture
Antique garden furniture and ornamentation is a great way to introduce character to an outside space, whether a sprawling garden, a small patio or even a balcony.
Antique garden furniture was built to last almost without exception, with both the materials and the craftsmanship involved being of a far greater quality than we expect from the modern equivalents.
If you are looking for a focal point it can be created with antique garden ornaments. The practice of garden embellishment originated with the Romans, who displayed copies of Greek statues in their villa gardens. Later, during the Renaissance period, Roman statuary was recovered to be incorporated into Italian gardens.
There is an enormously diverse range of garden furniture styles. Antique cast iron garden furniture goes far beyond the ornate Rococo style to the elegance of Regency design. There are also examples of gothic, arts and crafts and aesthetic pieces to name but a few! These are often sturdier and longer lasting than antique wooden garden furniture and they can also be painted in any colour of choice, or even leave the patina from decades of use.
Gardens can be intriguing places as well as places of leisure, rest and contemplation. Antique garden statues can create a focus or point of interest in a garden scheme. For example, Antique garden urns reflect the Roman and Greek vases of old. They are often made from terracotta, cast iron, stone and marble which all weather to develop a patina over the centuries. These can very quickly evoke the elegance and intrigue of a classical garden.
Our selection of Antique stone garden ornaments are often reclaimed from historic buildings, stately homes or important landmarks that have either been demolished or remodelled.
Perhaps the most dramatic of all garden ornamentation is the antique garden fountain. Not only do they create visual impact, but they can also create a variety of sounds, from the merest trickle of water in the background to a majestic cascade. Whichever one you choose, it is bound to be a showstopper.
Antique garden accessories, as you can see, come in all shapes and sizes, so if you are looking for something to fit a specific space in your garden, please do not hesitate to contact us for assistance.