Scottish set a bench and two chairs - Charles D. Young & c. 1850, Edinburgh - Grape bunches and leaves

Code art.: 13864
Price: 2.000,00 €

This model is found exclusively in Great Britain, sometime in USA, it is rare and very expensive, usually it is beaten by the English auction houses with figures ranging between 5,000 £ and 8,000 £, this only for the sofa, in the case of a complete set of 1 sofa and two armchairs always exceed £ 10,000.

The bench is made up of 11 pieces, made with 8 different molds, the realization of this ancient set was not easy.

Bibliography:

CAST-IRON FURNITURE - Georg Himmelheber - Philip Wilson - 1996
Photos 113 and 114 - Edinburgh, Charles D. Young & Co., c. 1850

GARDEN ORNAMENTS and Antiques - Myra Yellin Outwater - Shiffer Publishing Ltd - 2000
Page 186, two photos with text: Late 19th century, cast-iron seat.
American. It is very unusual to find a bench this small. Hobensack and Keller. PAUSE
Myra Yellin mentions America as origin but does not refer to the production which was certainly Scottish, this model was exported to America by C.D. Young & Co in the second half of the 1800s.

Messrs Charles D. Young & Company. Illustrated and descriptive catalog of machinery, implements, tools ... iron architecture, bridges ... c. 1857-8
We found the original catalog of Charles D. Young & Co, we publish at the end of the photos, the title page of the ancient catalog and page 74 with the drawings of the bench and an armchair.
The category is HORTICULTURE and JARDINERIA.
If you are interested we can provide you the scanned catalog in PDF of 37.4 MB.

Sizes and weight are referred in Inches and Pounds

Maximum seat depth:	16.93
Manufacturing:	Recuperando srl
Material:	Alluminio
Artist / Creator / Architect:	0

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