A gate pier finial in the form of an artichoke, after an exceptional English 19th-century original. In an Aegean myth Cyanara, a young mortal woman, was seduced by Zeus but, after numerous trysts, chose to return to her mortal parents. Angered, Zeus transformed her into the plant we know today as the artichoke. Dimensions: 36" high, 24.5" diameter of base.

A fine pedestal with exaggerated bead motif at base, after a ca. 1860 English stoneware original marked “PULHAM, BROXBOURNE”. Pulham’s Artificial Stones, founded in ca. 1840 by James Pulham, was based in Broxbourne (London) from 1843 to 1945. Dimensions: 23" high, 24" square at top, 31" square at base.