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Late 19th Century Iron Garden Urn Attributed to J. W. Fiske

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Please request updated photos as this urn has been repaired and the finish may be different than these older photos. Silk flowers not included but available in another listing. Late 19th century garden urn. This beautiful piece is most likely produced by J. W. Fiske and Company although a signature cannot be found. This incredible detailed Victorian piece can be used in or outdoors. The date is stamped on the side and we think it reads : May 25, 1875 J. W. Fiske & Company of New York City was the most prominent American manufacturer of decorative cast iron and cast zinc in the second half of the 19th century. In addition to their wide range of garden fountains, statues, urns, and cast iron garden furniture, they provided many of the cast-zinc Civil War memorials of small towns throughout the northern states following the American Civil War. These were commonly painted to imitate bronze. The entrepreneurial founder, Joseph Winn Fiske (May 22, 1832-October 20, 1903[3]) out-sourced the iron and zinc-alloy foundry-work itself,[4] and concentrated on the firm's connections with modelers on the one hand and customer relations on the other. Fiske, of a colonial family in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, spent some years as a merchandiser in Melbourne, Australia, before returning to the United States in 1857. He founded his business, at first in partnership with hardware-man Thomas W. Brown, in Boston (by 1862) and New York, December 1863. The "& Co." was dropped in 1862[5] in the business. Fiske's lavishly illustrated catalogues, issued at brief intervals, kept the firm in the public eye and incidentally show art historians how casually design patents were infringed in the 19th century. Fiske's designs ranged from the naturalistic foliate designs that were the stock-in-trade of mid-Victorian style to sculptures after the antique or neoclassical works of Antonio Canova or Bertel Thorvaldsen, suitable for park-like landscapes of estates and landscape cemeteries of formal schemes. Fiske was also noted for his hammered copper weather vanes, produced in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Fiske's great rival in the decorative cast iron field was Jordan L. Mott's J. L. Mott Iron Works of New York City.[6] Most later 20th century, unmarked pieces of decorative cast iron of appropriate date are commonly attributed to J. W. Fiske.

Dimensions:

Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Diameter: 26 in (66.04 cm)

Style:

Early Victorian (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Iron

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

Late 19th Century

Date of Manufacture:

Late 19th Century

Condition:

Refinished. Repaired: The urn did crack and has been soldered /repaired prior to us receiving it. Minor structural damages. some alteration to the finish since repairs were made. Please request new photos.

Seller Location:

Redding, CT

Reference Number:

Seller: Fleur De Lis Antiques and Design 120201stDibs: LU959521637202

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