J. L. Mott Iron Works

The J. L. Mott Iron Works was an American hardware dealer and manufacturer during the late 19th century.

[1] The company would later expand to the manufacture and trading of "Stoves and ranges, hot-air furnaces, parlor grates and fenders, fire irons, cauldrons and kettles, statuary, candelabra, fountains garden seats, vases, iron pipes or every kind, water tanks, &c" are mentioned in Benson John Lossing, History of New York City.

At the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876, an elaborate cast iron fountain, 25 feet tall, was exhibited by the company.

Some examples of the fountain figure The Boy with the Leaking Boot in various American and Canadian cities were purchased from the company.

Mott showroom in Manhattan and presented it as a work of art called Fountain at the Society of Independent Artists exhibition.