Browse Items (19 total)

  • Collection: The Gilded Garden

Montgomery Place Elephant

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Janes, Kirtland & Co., Illustrated Catalogue of
Ornamental Iron Work, New York, 1870, unpaged.

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Terra-cotta figural group titled L’Amour et L’Innocence (“Love and Innocence”)

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consisting of two curly-haired cherubs, one holding and kissing a bird, each with one arm around the other, the figures with a small dog at their feet

Illustration: Gossin Frères, statuaires, ornemanistes, fabrique de terre cuite: ... sujets pour…

Pair of terra-cotta lidded urns, the octagonal body of each urn ornamented with foliate motifs, the handles in the form of dragons, their open mouths grasping the lid of each urn, the lid with foliate terminal

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Cast-iron Gothic Revival settee, the back and arms pierced with tracery and quatrefoils and with hexagon pierced seat, the legs joined by stretchers, together with a pair of matching armchairs

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Terra-cotta figural group titled L’Enfants au Coeur (“Children of the Heart”)

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comprising two curly-haired winged cherubs representing Cupid and Psyche, with Cupid trying to prevent Psyche from stomping on the flaming heart that lies at their feet (alongside a rose and Cupid’s quiver full of arrows), the act of stomping…

Pair of cast-iron, campana-form urns, the bodies shallow and semi-lobed, with fluted, ringed, and tapered socles and unusual wavy rims

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Pair of cast-iron, campana-form urns, the bodies semi-lobed with foliated handles, the scalloped rims with modified egg-and-dart motif, on ringed, tapered socles and integral square bases, marked “Wood & Perot Philadelphia."

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Group of three cast-iron campana, or bell-shaped, urns with foliated loop handles, the bodies semi-lobed, the rims with egg-and-dart motif, on ringed, tapered socles and square integral bases, marked “J. L. Mott New York"

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Cast-iron and wooden settee, the cast-iron supports in the twig, or rustic, pattern, the seat and back composed of wooden slats

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