Garden Bench Timmes Cast Iron. SOLD

A fancy cast iron garden bench made in Brooklyn New York and patent dated 1895 by Peter Timmes Son. This filigree patterned bench is the most elaborate of a school of benches made in New York City in the late 19thC and commonly referred to as the curtain pattern. There are examples of this bench in both the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Clicking on the link below will take you to the listing in the Brooklyn Museum. click here
If you enlarge the photos you will see the Peter Timmes label on the front of the
Bench, the back of the bench says Pat'd 1895. There are absolutely no breaks or repairs to the bench, 33 inches wide
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1565/Bench (Item number: 1302)

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