(Trade Catalogue - Garden Ornament)(VAL D'OSNE)   SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME DES HAUTS-FOURNEAUX ET FONDERIES DU VAL D'OSNE   Fontes Diverses Pour DECORATION DE JARDINS..... (cover title).    Paris: n.d. ca.   1876.          Extrait de L'Album (No. 17) of the venerable French cast-iron firm of Société Anonyme Des Hauts-Fourneaux Et Fonderies Du Val D'Osne with over 200 illustrations of vases, urns, cache-pots and jardinières. The catalogue contains plates originally made at various dates for various catalogues or albums and as early as 1857; it is thus a small cross section of the firm's vase offerings since the time the company existed as Barbezat & Cie., who took over the operation from its founder, André. It was André who had started up the iron works in Val D'Osne, using the best Parisian designers and modellers in his atelier (see Davis, ANTIQUE GARDEN ORNAMENT p. 275). The designs shown here vary in style from strict classical to a mid-nineteenth century baroque best exemplified by a vase designed by P. Rouillard with intricate bas relief of wild life, this latter displayed on a folding plate.   Small folio (36 x 27.3 cm); 18 lithographed plates, of which 1 is folding, printed on rectos only.            Original printed paper covers, spine perished but original stitching firm, plates fresh. $450.00

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