Stock No: 16738

A pair of fine and large 19th century copies of the Sosibios vase by Handyside & Co in cast iron, with associated stone bases. These copies of the Greek krater were originally retailed by the Handyside foundry at £4 in 1880.

Notes:
This cast iron urn is modelled on a white marble urn from antiquity by Sosibios, a Greek sculptor working in Rome around 50 BC. An English version of the model was later in the 1874 catalogue of A. Handyside and Co. of Derby and London. A set of four painted cast-iron urns of this model sold at Christie's Wrotham Park, 4 June 1991 lot 120.

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