NEW YORK—Over 30 of America’s foremost dealers are offering their best quality pieces at the Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale next month. The sale will be held at America’s most distinguished venue for garden antiques, the New York Botanical Garden.
Beckoning to novice collectors and garden designers alike, the three-day event will feature antique fountains, statues, benches, urns, sundials, birdbaths, and botanical prints. Throughout the weekend, antiques experts and exhibitors will be offering informative tours and talks as well.
From cast iron and marble fountains to early 18th-century botanical prints and mid-20th-century American, French, and English garden furniture, this sale will be a treat for anyone into landscaping, decorating the garden, or who just wants to get some ideas and inspiration.
The sale will be held in a tent outside the grand Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, surrounded by flowering trees, plants, and shrubs. The entry fee is $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, and $8 for children and includes an all-garden pass for access to the show, botanical garden grounds, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, rock garden, tram tour, and Everett children’s adventure garden.
The New York Botanical Garden features 50 diverse gardens and plant collections across 250 acres of year-round beauty, including 30,000 trees. The garden is a National Historic Landmark landscape.
An extraordinary cast sculpture of a Lioness with her two cubs will be exhibited by Treillage Ltd. of New York City. Dated around 1900, this larger than life size French sculpture is a classic example of the art of the animalier, and is remarkably close in style to the Lioness and Cubs in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, made by the French artist Victor Peter in 1899. The 1899 piece was extremely popular in Europe at the time and variations of the group were executed in marble and bronze for which this one could very well be a mold copy.
Judith and James Milne Inc. from New York City are exhibiting a cast iron dog, circa 1880.This piece has an untouched patina and a flower-form zinc fountain in which each flower is perforated so that water sprays out.
A pair of elegant, carved marble campana urns, circa 1880, along with a set of large carved marble spheres and a composition stone polar bear made in Barre, Vermont will be exhibited by Kate A. Alex and Co. of Warner, New Hampshire.
Other exhibited items include, birdcages, gates, trellises, aquariums, antique lanterns and other outdoor lighting, and architectural ornaments.
Garden antique specialists will offer tours and book signings daily. There will be special events each day beginning with a Benefit Preview Party and Collectors’ Plant sale on Thursday May 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
On Friday, May 7, Alan Gray of the famed Old Vicarage garden in East Ruston, Norfolk, England will present a special lecture on the garden that he has cultivated since 1973.
On Saturday May 8, guest designers will assist buyers looking for the perfect piece to complement a garden, landscape, or interior.
Beckoning to novice collectors and garden designers alike, the three-day event will feature antique fountains, statues, benches, urns, sundials, birdbaths, and botanical prints. Throughout the weekend, antiques experts and exhibitors will be offering informative tours and talks as well.
From cast iron and marble fountains to early 18th-century botanical prints and mid-20th-century American, French, and English garden furniture, this sale will be a treat for anyone into landscaping, decorating the garden, or who just wants to get some ideas and inspiration.
The sale will be held in a tent outside the grand Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, surrounded by flowering trees, plants, and shrubs. The entry fee is $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, and $8 for children and includes an all-garden pass for access to the show, botanical garden grounds, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, rock garden, tram tour, and Everett children’s adventure garden.
The New York Botanical Garden features 50 diverse gardens and plant collections across 250 acres of year-round beauty, including 30,000 trees. The garden is a National Historic Landmark landscape.
Highlight Pieces
An extraordinary cast sculpture of a Lioness with her two cubs will be exhibited by Treillage Ltd. of New York City. Dated around 1900, this larger than life size French sculpture is a classic example of the art of the animalier, and is remarkably close in style to the Lioness and Cubs in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, made by the French artist Victor Peter in 1899. The 1899 piece was extremely popular in Europe at the time and variations of the group were executed in marble and bronze for which this one could very well be a mold copy.
Judith and James Milne Inc. from New York City are exhibiting a cast iron dog, circa 1880.This piece has an untouched patina and a flower-form zinc fountain in which each flower is perforated so that water sprays out.
A pair of elegant, carved marble campana urns, circa 1880, along with a set of large carved marble spheres and a composition stone polar bear made in Barre, Vermont will be exhibited by Kate A. Alex and Co. of Warner, New Hampshire.
Other exhibited items include, birdcages, gates, trellises, aquariums, antique lanterns and other outdoor lighting, and architectural ornaments.
Special Events Each Day
Garden antique specialists will offer tours and book signings daily. There will be special events each day beginning with a Benefit Preview Party and Collectors’ Plant sale on Thursday May 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
On Friday, May 7, Alan Gray of the famed Old Vicarage garden in East Ruston, Norfolk, England will present a special lecture on the garden that he has cultivated since 1973.
On Saturday May 8, guest designers will assist buyers looking for the perfect piece to complement a garden, landscape, or interior.
Celebrating Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 9, and throughout the weekend, the show will have special activities for very young collectors.
Also on view at the New York Botanical Garden during the Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale is the spring exhibition, Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, which will illuminate Dickinson’s life and work, the connections that exist between her life and poems, and her study and love of flowers and gardens.
The 18th annual Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale is from Friday May 7 until Sunday May 9. Show hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Advance tickets are available online at http://nybg.org
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