A Coalbrookdale oak and ivy pattern cast iron seat, circa 1870

The original design, number 119253, was registered and patented by the Coalbrookdale Iron Foundry on 8th March, 1859, and is seat number 30 in their 1875 Castings Catalogue.  It was designed by the sculptor John Bell, one of Coalbrookdale's principal designers, whose famous Deerhound Centre Table was exhibited at the 1855 Universal Exhibition, and which is now in the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Shropshire (see engraving)