YORK and COTSWOLD STONE
Hard carved Bird Bath
Late 1700s /early 1800s, English
£525
Dimensions
H 52cm ( 21") Bath 35 x 35cm (14") Ball 35cm (14") diameter
Description
A unique bird bath by O+I combining a Cotswold stone finial globe (with flatted top) and a rustic York stone square bird bath. Both carved by hand, either side of 1800 ; combined, they make a lovely whole, coming from two vastly different worlds of a Gloucestershire manor house and a hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales : yes sir - aye lad !
The ball shows the file and chisel marks parallel around its circumference. Simultaneously, two hundred miles north, the bath was being hewn rough by a broad chisel blade into its flaked facets : different carvers, different places, same time. Their golden tones now blend and both have accumulated a lovely lichen blessed patina.
Stock No. 2012
