Wrought-iron Dining Set by Barbara Israel Garden Antiques

Wrought-iron Dining Set

Items #06220

Description:

A wrought-iron dining suite comprised of four armchairs, the chairs with slatted seats, cabriole legs, and the chair backs with stylized nautilus shell design, the round table with cabriole legs and stylized nautilus top, with inset glass (glass not shown), American, ca. 1930. Table 31 ins. high, 36 ins. diameter; chairs 36 ins. high, 28.5 ins. wide.

Wrought Iron Ornamental Screen

Item #06231

Description:
A wrought-iron Victorian screen in the Italian style, with intricate and meandering grapevine tendrils, leaves, and fruit, comprised of two large panels (one shown) connected by a horizontal cross bar at the top (not shown), the panels and crossbar ornamented with flames within pointed arch motif, the whole gilt or gold-painted, English, ca. 1880. 77 ins. high, 111 ins. wide overall.

The screen is only for indoor use or use on a porch unless the surface is painted.

Carved Stone Lions

Item #05249

Description:
A pair of carved stone gate pier seated lions, looking in opposing directions, each fully-maned beast with one paw raised on a heraldic shield, Bavaria, early 19th c. Lions 36 ins. high, 17.5 ins.

Barbara says, “A true pair with opposing heads, tails and shields, these lions are excellent guardians at an entrance. They serve to make the transition onto a property, into a separate garden or at the bottom of a set of steps”.

Fiske-owned Fountain

Item #05433

Description:
A cast-iron and zinc fountain, manufactured by the J.W. Fiske Iron Works, New York, ca. 1910. 62 ins. high, 34 ins. wide, 34 ins. deep.

This model was offered at least as early as 1868 as it appears in the Fiske catalog in that year. It was also manufactured by New York firms, Janes, Beebe & Co.; Janes, Kirtland & Co.; and J.L. Mott Iron Works. According to zinc statuary expert, Carol Grissom, the figure was based on August Kiss’ mid-19th-century Boy and Dolphin fountain made for the Sans Souci palace in Potsdam, Germany, which was in turn modeled after Verrocchio’s 15th-century Putto with Dolphin.

Provenance: Collection Joseph Warren Fiske, great-grandnephew of Joseph Winn Fiske, company founder.

Barbara says, “When I bought this from Joe Fiske it had never been assembled. Joe had it in his collection of pieces left over from his family company. You can’t imagine the satisfaction in seeing it in its configuration working away as intended”.

World War I: Lafayette Escadrille

WORLD WAR I: LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE.
A painted fuselage from the Lafayette Escadrille. [France: c.1916-18.] A dark grey-green canvas plane panel, painted with the familiar Indian head insignia, with the full headress, mouth open and teeth showing, lettered “Escadrille Lafayette” at lower left, and with a small applique cloth, marked with a German iron cross added on lower left (to denote one downed German plane), evidence of part of a number at upper right. 17.5 x 29.5 inches (450 x 780mm). The paint slightly chipped, and tears appearing along some old vertical crease lines. Framed.