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Description A pair of Scottish George III cast iron stoves modelled as Neoclassical urns, attributed to the Carron Company, likely to designs by Robert Adam, circa 1780, each lobed cover above an ovoid body cast with twin bearded mask handles, swags and foliage, above waisted circular socles, each with a circular aperture to the rear, 105cm high, 51cm wide overallThe Carron Iron Company was founded in 1759 near Falkirk, Stirlingshire, by John Roebuck, Samuel Garbett and William Cadell. The model of the present urns is closely related to a late 18th century pen and ink drawing of a 'pedestal stove' found in the foundry's papers at the Scottish Record Office.The foundry specialised in creating use objects out of cast iron, combining practicality with fashionable designs. The Adam brothers were amongst the designers enlisted by the foundry, and it is likely that they were responsible for the Neoclassical design of the lot offered here. An urn stove on plinth of the same model, formerly at Compton Place, Sussex, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, M.3-1920, and another example is at Temple Newsham House, Leeds.