Vintage Gardener's Watering Can

With Large Copper Rose Head
Zinc with Interesting Historic Paint Surface

Northern European c. 1900

16.5” high x 23” wide x 8” deep

Ref: 6660

In amazing untouched original condition, this vintage working gardener’s Watering Can is a master class in original historic paint surface. Cupped cracked and crusty, elements of several layers of paintwork now create a kind of pointillist abstract work on the oval body. Painted in oil bound paints onto a moulded zinc body and surmounted by a bold but graceful loop handle and with a huge rose head, this is more a piece of patinated sculpture than an historic working vessel. Simply special.


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