Antique Garden Furniture: Ornaments, Statues & Fountains
Our collection of antique garden furniture, antique fountains, outdoor ornaments and garden statues.
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Stock: 11826
One pair of three pairs, with SNos 11828 & 11829, of elaborately carved terracotta wall sculptures depicting scrolled cartouche each with twin cornucopia from which tumble abundant fruits and flowers.
Provenance: Purportedly made by James Pulham & Son of Architectural Terra Cotta, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire for the former Crosse & Blackwell Pickle Warehouse in Charing Cross Rd, London. The fruits possibly representing the ingredients of their famous Branston & Piccalilli Pickles.
Early 20th century.
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28 11⁄16" 73 cms |
50 13⁄16" 129 cms |
13 3⁄8" 34 cms |
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Listed Price: £9,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13146
One of four Portland Stone Keystones removed from the facade of St Thomas' Hospital London. The carving depicts various surgical instruments of the early 20th century.
The Hospital was moved from it's 17th century site in Southwark to new buildings in Lambeth Palace Road across the River Thames from The Houses of Parliament where it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.
Early, 20th entury. A pair with SNo 13138 shown below.
Weight: 144kg.
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12" 30.5 cms |
29 7⁄8" 76 cms |
14 3⁄16" 36 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13145
One of four Portland Stone Keystones removed from the facade of St Thomas' Hospital London bearing the carved profile of Florence Nightingale surmounted by a representation of her famous lamp which as a nurse tending the wounded during The Crimean War she carried before her at night searching the battle fields for the fallen. The sight of her lamp shining through the dark brought hope to those waiting to be found.
She had been consulted by the Architect Henry Currey about the design for the new St Thomas' which was moved from it's 17th century site in Southwark to Lambeth Palace Road across the River Thames from The Houses of Parliament where it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871. The design of separate blocks rather than in one large building which brought light and air to the wards was probably due to her influence.
Early 20th century. A pair with SNo 13139 Edith Cavell shown below.
Weight: 14kg.
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13" 33 cms |
29 7⁄8" 76 cms |
11 3⁄8" 29 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13144
One of five carved Portland Stone Plaques removed from the facade of St Thomas' Hospital. It is carved in the shape of a Shield and bears some of the symbols of the Hospitals Crest; a Cross, a Tudor Rose flanked by two Fleur de Lys and a Spear - the original also bore a Fish on the Cross and a Chough ( associated with Thomas Becket from whom the Hospital took it's name ) in the top right quadrant.
Early 20th century. A pair with SNo 13140 now sold.
Weight: 278kg.
The Hospital was moved from it's 17th century site in Southwark to new buildings in Lambeth Palace Road across the River Thames from The Houses of Parliament where it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871
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28 1⁄4" 72 cms |
33 1⁄8" 84 cms |
11 3⁄8" 29 cms |
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Listed Price: £6,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13143
One of five Portland Stone Plaques removed from the facade of St Thomas' Hospital in London. Carved in the shape of a shield it bears a serpent entwined round a staff representing the Rod of Asclepius, the ancient Greek symbol associated with healing and medicine.The Hospital was moved from it's 17th century site in Southwark to new buildings in Lambeth Palace Road across the River Thames from The Houses of Parliament where it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.
Early 20th century. A pair with SNo 13141 now sold.
Weight: 272kg.
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28" 71 cms |
33 1⁄2" 85 cms |
12 5⁄8" 32 cms |
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Listed Price: £6,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13139
One of four Portland Stone Keystones removed from the facade of St Thomas'
Hospital in London, bearing the carved profile of Edith Cavell surmounted by a carved laurel wreath surrounding the Rod of Asclepius, the ancient Greek symbol for healing and medicine.
Early 20th century. A pair with SNo 13145 Florence Nightingale shown below.
Weight: 139kg.
Notes:Edith Cavell was a British nurse and patriot. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction during World War I, and for helping Allied soldiers to escape from German occupied Belgium. She was caught and arrested by the Germans, tried and found guilty of treason and was shot by a firing squad in October 1915.The Hospital was moved from it's 17th century site in Southwark to new buildings in Lambeth Palace Road, across the River Thames from The Houses of Parliament where it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.
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13" 33 cms |
30 1⁄4" 77 cms |
11 3⁄8" 29 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13138
One of four Portland Stone Keystones removed from the facade of St Thomas' Hospital, London the carving depicting various surgical instruments of the early 20th century.
Early 20th century. A pair with SNo 13146 shown below.
Weight: 148kg
Notes:The Hospital was moved from it's 17th century site in Southwark to new buildings in Lambeth Palace Road across the River Thames from The Houses of Parliament where it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.
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11 13⁄16" 30 cms |
30 1⁄4" 77 cms |
14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13117
A very large and heavy reconstituted stone pedestal or pediment with a shell cartouche and scrolling decoration.
English early 20th century.
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30 11⁄16" 78 cms |
31 1⁄2" 80 cms |
8 11⁄16" 22 cms |
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Listed Price: £850 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12966
A set of twelve nicely weathered Portland stone balusters.
English, circa 1900.
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5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms |
17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms |
5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £460 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11366
A pair of architectural ceramic urns in the Baroque manner removed from 298 Bishopsgate in the City Of London built between 1877-1890 and demolished in 1980.
English, circa 1890.
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19 11⁄16" 50 cms |
49 3⁄16" 125 cms |
19 11⁄16" 50 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 10669
A CARVED PORTLAND STONE OVERDOOR featuring the head of Mercury on the central keystone, English, late 19th century.
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84 5⁄8" 215 cms |
23 5⁄8" 60 cms |
23 5⁄8" 60 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11910
A large triangular carved antique Bathstone armorial pediment with a Coat of Arms depicting a knights helmet surmounting a central floral Cartouche with a Lions head profiled set within an oval lozenge, the cartouche is supported by mythical winged Lions.
French, 19th century.
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78 1⁄2" 199.4 cms |
40" 101.6 cms |
4 11⁄16" 12 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 9596
A well carved antique stone pediment, carved in the Baroque manner, in the form of a plain oval cartouche under a crown, draped with abundant laurel swags supported on a scrolled cornucopia of fruit. The cartouche bears an inscription which reads 'Statuary and Mason' and this could be removed and re-carved.
English, mid 19th century.
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47 3⁄16" 120 cms |
8 1⁄4" 21 cms |
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47 5⁄8" 121 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 8243
A pair of finely carved volute shaped antique Italian wall fountains in pink Verona marble, embellished with extensive fishscale carving and featuring large and handsome lion head masks. Italian late 18th century.
Notes: There is damage to the mouth of one of the left hand lion head mask and to the fishscale carving on the right hand piece.
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7 1⁄8" 18 cms |
30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms |
8 11⁄16" 22 cms |
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Listed Price: £9,500 pair.(+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11334
A slender classical three tiered painted cast iron fountain surmounted by a winged cherub and with the foundry mark of the Handyside Foundry, Glasgow on the base stem. Late 19th century.
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39 3⁄8" 100 cms |
50" 127 cms |
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Stock: 10971
An ornate late Regency Greek revival boot scraper, with the Birmingham foundry's stamps on either side, and two pairs of storks drinking from pitchers in the manner of Aesop's fable, with further Greek Revival ornament in the acanthus leaf decoration around the base and the palmettes on the urns. English, early 19th century.
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13" 33 cms |
8 1⁄4" 21 cms |
10 5⁄8" 27 cms |
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Listed Price: £750 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11768
A pair of well carved stone Renaissance overdoors each with carved central cartouche depicting Medieval noblemen. Images before restoration.
Northern England, 18th century.
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Stock: 11229
A very large arched carved stone pediment removed from the roof papapet over the main entrance of the Beaumont Hall Hotel, Clacton in Essex. The coat of arms shows two rampant Talbot hunting hounds supporting a central shield above which is a carved galleon, derived from the municipal crest of the town of Clacton, the whole carved with acanthus scroll work. Preliminary image before restoration and cleaning.
English, late 19th century.
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120" 304.8 cms |
72" 182.9 cms |
54" 137.2 cms |
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Listed Price: £16,000 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 10635
A rare Doulton Lambeth Cream Glazed Stoneware Garden Sundial, the square plateau with scalloped corners over a column moulded as two swans, each with upswept wings, on a raised base.
Note: The original bronze sundial plate is missing
English, late 19th century.
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15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms |
28" 71 cms |
15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 10636
A Doulton of Lambeth cream glazed stoneware fountain, modelled as four herons on a circular base with styelised shells.
English, late 19th century.
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13 13⁄16" 35 cms |
21 1⁄4" 54 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 10884
A pair of large Bristol glazed antique garden recumbent lions. English,
19th century.
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39 13⁄16" 101 cms |
29 1⁄2" 75 cms |
14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,800 Pair.(+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 10734
A massive carved Portland Stone Tableau of the reigning monarchs, William & Mary(1689-1702), granting The Bank of England Charter in 1694. Sculptor Esmond Burton (1885 – 1964).
Part of a collection of approximately 45 statues and carvings commissioned by the Bank of England to adorn it’s Annexe built in the 1950’s at One New Change in the City of London. They were removed prior to the building being demolished in 2007. This group was above the Cheapside entry to the courtyard and was flanked either side by statues of Sir John Houblon, the first Governor of the Bank and Michael Godfrey the first Deputy, please see third image below.
Notes: The building was erected to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department and occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west. It was built on a World War II bomb site behind St Paul’s Cathedral and was sensitively designed in a graceful curve to follow the curve of the east end of Sir Christopher Wrens majestic Roman Baroque building.
English, circa 1958.
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53 1⁄8" 135 cms |
82 11⁄16" 210 cms |
27 5⁄8" 70 cms |
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Stock: 10785
One New Change Keystones.
A LION's HEAD....on the right.
Sculptor Esmond Burton 1957.
Provenance:The lions head on the right was originally a keystone set high on the Cheapside facade above the entry to the South Courtyard of the One New Change building in the City of London.
The building erected in the 1950's to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department & demolished in 2007, occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west and filled a sensitive site in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wrens majestic Roman Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral.
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12" 30.5 cms |
15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms |
14 5⁄8" 37 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 10778
One New Change Keystones.
HEAD OF A LION...on the left...
Sculptor: Alan Collins 1958-59
Originally on the Newgate façade above The Fortress of Gold Tableau of the One New Change building in the City of London.
The building erected in the 1950's to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department & demolished in 2007, occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west and filled a sensitive site in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wrens majestic Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral.
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14 5⁄8" 37 cms |
14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms |
13 3⁄8" 34 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 8118
A pair of composition stone sphinx.
Italian 20th century.
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12 3⁄16" 31 cms |
21" 53.4 cms |
38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £2,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 8051
A pair of neoclassical style stone garden urns of circular form
raised on square bases.
English circa 1900.
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16 1⁄2" 42 cms |
16 1⁄8" 41 cms |
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8 5⁄8" 21.8 cms |
5 1⁄2" 14 cms |
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Stock: 7144
A pair of composition Egyptian lions in the Regency manner, the bases stamped ‘Coade’. Commercial copies.
20th century.
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15" 38.1 cms |
24 1⁄2" 62.2 cms |
48 1⁄2" 123.2 cms |
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Listed Price: £6,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Antique Garden Furniture
Antique garden furniture and ornamentation is a great way to introduce character to an outside space, whether a sprawling garden, a small patio or even a balcony.
Antique garden furniture was built to last almost without exception, with both the materials and the craftsmanship involved being of a far greater quality than we expect from the modern equivalents.
If you are looking for a focal point it can be created with antique garden ornaments. The practice of garden embellishment originated with the Romans, who displayed copies of Greek statues in their villa gardens. Later, during the Renaissance period, Roman statuary was recovered to be incorporated into Italian gardens.
There is an enormously diverse range of garden furniture styles. Antique cast iron garden furniture goes far beyond the ornate Rococo style to the elegance of Regency design. There are also examples of gothic, arts and crafts and aesthetic pieces to name but a few! These are often sturdier and longer lasting than antique wooden garden furniture and they can also be painted in any colour of choice, or even leave the patina from decades of use.
Gardens can be intriguing places as well as places of leisure, rest and contemplation. Antique garden statues can create a focus or point of interest in a garden scheme. For example, Antique garden urns reflect the Roman and Greek vases of old. They are often made from terracotta, cast iron, stone and marble which all weather to develop a patina over the centuries. These can very quickly evoke the elegance and intrigue of a classical garden.
Our selection of Antique stone garden ornaments are often reclaimed from historic buildings, stately homes or important landmarks that have either been demolished or remodelled.
Perhaps the most dramatic of all garden ornamentation is the antique garden fountain. Not only do they create visual impact, but they can also create a variety of sounds, from the merest trickle of water in the background to a majestic cascade. Whichever one you choose, it is bound to be a showstopper.
Antique garden accessories, as you can see, come in all shapes and sizes, so if you are looking for something to fit a specific space in your garden, please do not hesitate to contact us for assistance.