POSSIBLY BY J.P. WHITE, LONDON, CIRCA 1900

John Parish White (d.1917) established the Pyghtle Works, Bedford, in 1896. He opened a showroom at 134 New Bond Street, London, exhibiting garden ornament. The selection of seats illustrated in White's Christmas 1906 Complete Catalogue of Garden Furniture and Garden Ornament were all made to order and carved from Carrara white marble. However, identifying White's ornaments is often difficult, for the firm never seems to have marked its pieces. White's ceased activities in 1960 (see J. P. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, p.290-309).