The ‘Medici Vase’ by Andrew Handyside Company c.1851-1887A wonderful cast iron Medici Urn after the antique. By renowned English Foundry the Andrew Handyside Company (Britannia Iron Works, Derby) c. 1851 1887. The Medici urn (after the antique Medici Vase) was originally exhibited by the Handyside Foundry in the Great Exhibition of 1851. At the time the Foundry was described as being from the magnitude of its operations is second to none in England. Andrew Handyside bought the Britannia Iron Works in 1848,