A PAIR OF LEAD FIGURES OF SUMMER AND AUTUMN

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LOUIS WEINGARTNER -- 'AUTUMN' AND 'SUMMER' Louis Weingartner's experience of twenty years in the jewellery trade in Florence brought a new eye for detail and quality to the overall production of the Bromsgrove Guild on his arrival in 1904. As a result the firm started to win more lavish commissions, the most important of which was the 1905 commission for work around the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace. This comprised the Gates of Buckingham Palace, the Australian Screens and the Great Gates of Canada. These figures, apparently modelled on Walter Gilbert's baby daughter Margot, were used extensively around the lockplate of the Buckingham Palace gates and more obviously supporting lanterns on the piers of the Great Gates of Canada. The work was completed in 1908. the natural progression for the Guild was to produce variants of these figures in lead for the increasingly popular garden statuary market. These models of Autumn and Summer appear to have been produced from 1908, in lead, and were still in production when the firm exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show between 1926 and 1930. (Quintin Watt The Bromsgrove Guild, Bromsgrove, 1999).

A PAIR OF LEAD FIGURES OF SUMMER AND AUTUMN

CIRCA 1905, ATTRIBUTED TO THE BROMSGROVE GUILD, AFTER THE MODELS BY LOUIS WEINGARTNER

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A PAIR OF LEAD FIGURES OF SUMMER AND AUTUMN
CIRCA 1905, ATTRIBUTED TO THE BROMSGROVE GUILD, AFTER THE MODELS BY LOUIS WEINGARTNER
18in. (46cm.) high (2)

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