AMSTERDAM. - Sculptures, ornaments, fountains, finials, vases, growers, ballot boxes, basins, sundials, keystone and garden seats, will be offered in Amsterdam de Sotheby on Wednesday May 30, 2007. It is the third time that Sotheby in Amsterdam devotes a sale about the sculpture in garden and of the architectural ornaments of the collection of Piet Jonker. 

 

 the sale offers to an abundance of various sculptures out of stone, bronze, wire and cast iron iron of the traditional young ladies, the gods, the goddesses and the putti, and a choice of the fountains, growers, ballot boxes, doors and finials.

 

the notable pieces include two series of the four seasons impressive representations, including a whole of four white marble figures (€40.000 - 60.000).

 

There are the cut out stone animals with lime, including a lion with wings (€5.000 - 7.000) and a boar (€6.000 - 8000). An attractive pair wide stone léviers with lime is €2.500 estimated - 3.500. Very attractive is a stone flower stand cut out with lime in the form of putti three gambadant supporting a not very deep basin (€15.000-20.000).

 

the fountains include such decorative articles like a stone figure cut out of fountain of a fish (€800 - 1.200), a figure of stone fountain of composition in the form of little boy carrying a swan (€1.000 - 1.500) and a sculpture out of Belgian bronze of a boy assembling a tortoise, by Eugene Caneel (1882 - 1966) dating from the circa 1910. is €8.000 estimated - 12.000

 

the article far from common and impressive in this sale statuary of garden to Amsterdam de Sotheby is a rare and impressive garden of pleasure of “” being composed of two galleries of twelve columns bungalow-glazes each one, of a pair of sphinx extended with the putti on their backs, of a sculpture of pan playing the groove, the wth a putto on his back asking us to be quiet, and of a sculpture of Come, embraced by a Amor young person, as well as a large stone to put except play and of the flowers stand. This monumental whole in the stone made up of the circa 1840 covers a space of the circa twenty by twenty meters and is €150.000-180.000 estimated. 

 

 the decorative sculpture and ornaments for the garden and the terrace are in the increasing request. The combination of nature and the synthetic worked objects has while astonishing and the enthralling landscape. In summer, surrounded by the flowering factories and the green thicket, the sculpture shows with its finer. But also in winter, when the skies are gray and the gardens are empty and discover, an elegant sculpture or a good ornament can make a world of the difference. 

 

 the collection of Piet Jonker - starting from the beautiful Lindenhoff field in Baambrugge close to Abcoude (the Netherlands), Piet Jonker carries out a famous international company which is specialized out of historical building materials such as stones of flag, floors out of wooden, chimneys and tiles of wall. In the visit of the Nineties. A. with Billingshurst de Sotheby, located in a house of country surrounded by beautiful gardens in Western Sussex (RU), opened its eyes with the beauty of the sculpture in garden regulated in the good environment. Piet Jonker increased its collection with the sculpture and the ornaments out of stone and showed the latter in a garden of the Rebirth particularly designed for this purpose.

 

Piet Jonker left by the challenge to compile a sale of the ornaments of garden every two years. The sales of this type were popular in England and in the southernmost European countries during much of years.

 

Piet Jonker indicates: “The garden forever be out of mode but today it is probably more popular than always front. Much enthusiasm is expressed for the ornament garden and decoration in the form of marble sculpture, of iron ballot box of cast iron or worked iron garden seat. For gardeners seeking something of lively, the sale offers the delicious articles such as a double fountain of the circa 1910, in the shape of a white marble, herme of Bacchus of spitting of water and a bronze little boy which opens while laughing the tap to pulverize water on the Bacchus old man. This patinated and Carrara marble fountain bronze on a square basis in a low basin is 160cm high could be obtained for €20.000 - 25.000. ”

 

Viewing on the place: 25 at May 28 at Piet Jonker, Rijksstraatweg 23, Baambrugge (close to Abcoude), daily of 10am with 5pm. Sale in Amsterdam de Sotheby: Wednesday May 30, 2007 with 2pm and 7pm.