A pair of patinated cast iron panels cast from a model by Benjamin Creswick

A pair of patinated cast iron panels cast from a model by Benjamin Creswick, cast in relief with a farrier re-shoeing a horse and blacksmiths forging a horse shoe unsigned, 38 x 24cm.

Catalogue notes

Benjamin Creswick (1853-1946) produced three similar panels mounted in Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo's bronze mantlepiece, 1880, illustrated in Aymer Vallance's Mr Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and the Century Guild, The Studio volume 1899, pages 183-192. He was also a founder member of the Century Guild in 1882.