A Wonderful Pair of 19thC Cast Iron Relief Garden Ornaments in the Form of Winged Putto Sea-Creatures sub-Religion & Relics the typical ‘gestus melancholicus’

the typical ‘gestus melancholicus’

Van Dyck was a prolific painter of portraits of European aristocracy

Appealing to collectors of both Minton and breweriana

though he painted still lifes

The domed cover is later and is in super condition

A Wonderful Pair of 19thC Cast Iron Relief Garden Ornaments in the Form of Winged Putto Sea-Creatures sub-Religion & Relics the typical ‘gestus melancholicus’Origin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 1880 Width: 19 inches Depth: 17 inches Height: 25 inches Weight: 31. 5 KGS (all each, approximate and at extremities) The beautifully cast and patinated garden ornaments, in the form of naked winged putto with hands held aloft each lower half morphing to fantastical scrolling sea creatures, standing on circular plinth bases, survive from the second half of the nineteenth