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Lot Essay
THE DESIGN FOR THIS BENCH IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE 1858 BARBEZAT & CIE FONDERIES DU VAL D'OSNE CATALOGUE, UNDER 'BANCS DE JARDIN', PLATE 251.
THE INDUSTRY OF PRODUCING CAST IRON GARDEN ORNAMENT AND FURNITURE WAS AT ITS HEIGHT IN FRANCE DURING THIS PERIOD, WITH NUMEROUS PARISIAN FONDERIES PRODUCING A WEALTH OF GARDEN FURNITURE IN THIS IDEAL MEDIUM. THE SOCIéTé ANONYME DU VAL D'OSNE WAS NO EXCEPTION, INDEED BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR PRODUCING SOME OF THE FINEST QUALITY WORKMANSHIP IN THE FIELD. THE COMPANY CHANGED OWNERSHIP TWICE IN THE LATE 1860'S, FROM THE WELL-RENOWNED FIRM OF BARBEZAT, TO THE SOCIéTé ANONYME VAL D'OSNE IN 1870.
A NEAR IDENTICAL EXAMPLE OF THE SAME SIZE WAS SOLD CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENSINGTON, THE COUNTRY SEAT, PROPERTY OF JONATHAN MCCREERY, 22 JUNE 2000, LOT 105, (£4,112).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
John Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1991, Appendix II, p.350.
THE INDUSTRY OF PRODUCING CAST IRON GARDEN ORNAMENT AND FURNITURE WAS AT ITS HEIGHT IN FRANCE DURING THIS PERIOD, WITH NUMEROUS PARISIAN FONDERIES PRODUCING A WEALTH OF GARDEN FURNITURE IN THIS IDEAL MEDIUM. THE SOCIéTé ANONYME DU VAL D'OSNE WAS NO EXCEPTION, INDEED BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR PRODUCING SOME OF THE FINEST QUALITY WORKMANSHIP IN THE FIELD. THE COMPANY CHANGED OWNERSHIP TWICE IN THE LATE 1860'S, FROM THE WELL-RENOWNED FIRM OF BARBEZAT, TO THE SOCIéTé ANONYME VAL D'OSNE IN 1870.
A NEAR IDENTICAL EXAMPLE OF THE SAME SIZE WAS SOLD CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENSINGTON, THE COUNTRY SEAT, PROPERTY OF JONATHAN MCCREERY, 22 JUNE 2000, LOT 105, (£4,112).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
John Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1991, Appendix II, p.350.