Fieldcrest Presents
Decorative Metalworks
In the days of the Moors, Toledo was famous for its ironworks and, together with Seville and Granada, abounds in beautifully crafted iron window grilles, gates and wellheads.
This 19th Century Spanish Wrought Iron Wellhead Sculpture is similar to the one shown on page 70 in The Spanish House in America by Rexford Newcomb, A.I.A., J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia and London, 1927.
The dimensions are: 10’ high by 3’ 9” wide with a 2’6” diameter of the surround base.
This hand-painted cast iron two-dimensional sculpture of the Crown of The Kingdom of Holland from 1807-1808 is 10 inches high by 11½ inches wide.
This cast iron pair of 17th Century Andirons displays two monks holding the Medici Coat of Arms.
The Medicean family crest dates these andirons to Ferdinando I (1587 to 1609). His coat of arms, as displayed in the Forte di Belvedere in Florence, contained six palle or balls on their armorial bearings; at other times Medici family members marked the family’s emblem with the number of balls ranging from 12 to 5.
Dimensions: 16” tall, 12” wide by 22” deep.
These firedogs are in excellent condition considering the centuries of fronting crackling blazes on the hearth.
This pair of hand-painted cast metal 19th Century Germanic Knights, featuring armor, gauntlets, swords, a battle-ax and a scroll, standing on round two-tiered garland-decorated plinths, measures 10½ inches in height.
This replica of the art nouveau The Three Peepers, a jardinière by Charles Korschann (Czechoslovakia, 1872-1943) is modeled with three putti peering over the top to a reposing nude female, who is cast in relief to the front. The oblong planter is raised on the trunks of grapevines. This is a resin cold cast quite similar to the bronze shown on page 1002 of Bronze Sculptors and Founders edited by Harold Berman. Korschann studied at the Beaux Arts Schools in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Dimensions are 17” wide by 11” deep by 10½” high.
