VICTORIAN PAINTED CAST IRON GARDEN SEAT

VICTORIAN PAINTED CAST IRON GARDEN SEAT, almost certainly Yates Haywood Foundry, third quarter 19th century, the serpentine scrolling and lattice-cast back rest entwined with trailing blackberry and leaves below an anthemion cresting, the seat cast as conjoined circlets, above a foliate cast apron, with scrolling foliate cast legs descending to rail bases, 85cm high x 104cm wide Comparative Literature: The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, 1851, pg. 205. Cf, Christie's South Kensington, "The Country Seat", 22nd June 2000, lot 81.