. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. 5. The Work of Jean Tijou, 1690—171 o 45 by broken scrolls with rich acanthus (Fig. 17). The flat pilastersare fiUed with simple scrolls repeating in pairs on either side of acentral bar with lily leaves between, surmounted above the mouldedtransom by a pyramid of scrolled acanthus with a curious wroughtopenwork -i^ase for finial. Agraceful buttress of festoonsand broken scrolls and fineacanthus leads down on eachside to the plainer wicketswith their shorter pUast
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. 5. The Work of Jean Tijou, 1690—171 o 45 by broken scrolls with rich acanthus (Fig. 17). The flat pilastersare fiUed with simple scrolls repeating in pairs on either side of acentral bar with lily leaves between, surmounted above the mouldedtransom by a pyramid of scrolled acanthus with a curious wroughtopenwork -i^ase for finial. Agraceful buttress of festoonsand broken scrolls and fineacanthus leads down on eachside to the plainer wicketswith their shorter are of fine design anddiffer little from the engrav-ing of 1693, except as toextra height, but have re-cently been much re-stored. An identical pair,known as the Lion gates, wasput up by George I betweenthe colossal stone piers erect-ed by Queen Anne as anentrance to Bushey Park,which so dwarf them thatDefoe speaks of them aspitiful low gates. One otherroyal gate appears in thedesign book surmounted bythe imperial crown and palmbranches (Fig. 18). Thetwo sides differ, and seem-ingly neither were exe-cuted, unless the
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