A British cast iron vine pattern garden seat
early 20th Century, after the original by Charles Young of Edinburgh (Patented in 1850)
the back cast as a curved network of vine-leaves and grapes above the circular seat pierced as a geometric grille and raised on a trio of cabriole shaped vine-leaf supports linked with a tri-form stretcher,
£895
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This extraordinary design by Young’s in Edinburgh proved popular and was to be reproduced by a number of other foundries such as Handyside of Derbyshire (the Patents available for cast-iron in Victorian times was remarkably short: only 2or3years).
Young’s produced variants of the seat – as a bench or chair – and published them in a catalogue.