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Victorian Cast Iron garden Fountain formed with three graduated
circular dished bowls, the upper two cast with leaves, the
larger cast with masks and foliage, raised above a turned
column with three applied bound putti on a stepped and leaf
cast base. Attributed to the Handyside Foundry.
Andrew Handyside: Ironfounders (1806-87).
Britannia Iron Works, Derby.
In the Great Exhibition of 1851, they exhibited
Medici vases, bacchanalian vase and a bronzed vase decorated
with busts of Peel, Nelson, Watt, Wellington, Stephenson,
Scott, Shakespeare and Milton, and a fountain; at the time
was described as being ''from the magnitude of its operations
is second to none in England''. In 1873 incorporated as
a Limited Company. They produced two catalogues one possibly
in 1850 and one in 1873.
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