. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. GATES TO DULWICH George Bmickey, 1728 Plate GATES IN DULWICH \ George Buncker. Work by George Buncker 109 and taken down by George IV in J825, who caused the presentbuilding hy Nash to be erected. WoR^ BY George Buncker. Through the courtesy of Mr. S. W. Bickell we learn thatthe stately gates to Dulwich College (Plate xxxviii) were completedin 1728, by George Buncker, smith, for the modest price of ^ and massively framed betwee
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. GATES TO DULWICH George Bmickey, 1728 Plate GATES IN DULWICH \ George Buncker. Work by George Buncker 109 and taken down by George IV in J825, who caused the presentbuilding hy Nash to be erected. WoR^ BY George Buncker. Through the courtesy of Mr. S. W. Bickell we learn thatthe stately gates to Dulwich College (Plate xxxviii) were completedin 1728, by George Buncker, smith, for the modest price of ^ and massively framed between fixed panels of correspond-ing design, and octagonal stone piers surmounted by vases, theyappear worthy to rank with the College gates at Oxford orCambridge. They are massively framed, narrow, the widthbeing but one-fifth of the height, each comprising a scrolled lyrepanel between vertical bars, continued below the lock-rail, whichis also panelled and scrolled. The fixed panels at the side eachcontain two lyre panels of similar but not identical design, withplain and heavy vertical bars below the lock-rail. Over thepanels are pyramids of G scrolls -supporting solid flask-shapedfinials
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