20th Century Wrought Iron Italian Outdoor Modern Planter, 1970

Italian planter from the early 20th century. Object composed of a base in wrought and chiseled iron and a basin in sculpted marble of exceptional quality. Furniture of beautiful size...

Italian column from the second half of the 20th century. Octagonal furniture in walnut and beech wood with internal structure in fruit wood. Column f...

Particular set of Italian furniture from the 70s. Triptych consisting of a table and two interlocking chairs in bamboo wood, woven wood and rattan ...

Italian design leather armchair from the 1970s-1980s. Furniture of fabulous line and pleasant decor adorned with chromed steel and brass. Armchair finished from the center of excelle...

A French pair of wrought iron garden planters from the early 20th century. This antique pair of planters from France, each approximately two feet square in shape, feature scrolled ornamental wrought iron work, with petite ball-shaped finials, outlining their perimeters. The planters have metal liners about their four sides, an interior crossed metal grate...

An Italian Renaissance-style garden planter or basin in hand-carved limestone with a centered shell and scrolls on either side. It has a heavy top rim and bevels on the bottom. Minor...

20th century iron jardinière planter with floral details Beautiful patina in white, and light gray, this iron planter is a great decorative piece for any place in the home. Measure...

20th century, Italian bronze planter or Gueridon Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm This refined planter was made in Italy, in Naples, towards the Early 20th Century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte». It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole. The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space. This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia. The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...