Pair of Large Weathered Concrete Garden Urns on Plinths
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A pair of large weathered concrete garden urns on plinths, 20th century, the pair of classical campana form concrete urns, each with scrolling foliate handles and gadrooned lower body above a square socles, raised on ornate stepped plinths decorated with successive egg-and-dart and foliate borders, with fine patination in terracotta tones, one urn stamped with monogram to socle. Height 105 cm, width 95 cm, diameter: 63 cm
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- Gadrooning - A series of lobes usually as a border. In furniture gadrooning is found as carved decoration around the edges of table tops in the Chippendale and Jacobean style furniture. Gadrooning is also found as decoration on the rims of silver and ceramics.
- Socle - The short plinth, usually cylindrical, that serves as a pedestal for a sculpture or vase
- Terracotta - Terracotta is lightly fired earthenware, red or reddish-brown in colour, used in ancient times. Fired at higher temperatures terracotta was used in the nineteenth century for decorative vases and similar objects, but rarely for utilitarian goods. Other uses for terracotta include roofing tiles, garden pots and ornaments. Glazed terracotta is known as faience.
- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Patination / Patina - In broad terms, patination refers to the exterior surface appearance of the timber, the effect of fading caused by exposure to sunlight and air over the course of a century or more, changing the piece to a soft, mellow colour.
As patina is very difficult to replicate, it is one of the most important guides to determining the age of furniture.
Patina is also the term applied to the bloom or film found on old bronzes due to oxidisation.
This item has been included into following indexes:
- urns, planters and jardinieres