. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. xiv) weremade for Sir Robert Myddleton, by two brothers, local smithsnamed Roberts, for the price of ^^190 is. 6d. They nowform part of the fine existing screen, 103 feet long. This wasprobably the first important commission given to the Roberts, whoproduced a- most ambitious work, comprising massive squarepiers with acanthus capitals and solid-looking entablatures andbases of sheet metal,- copied from stone mouldings. The sidesare fiUed with panels of scrolls and
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. xiv) weremade for Sir Robert Myddleton, by two brothers, local smithsnamed Roberts, for the price of ^^190 is. 6d. They nowform part of the fine existing screen, 103 feet long. This wasprobably the first important commission given to the Roberts, whoproduced a- most ambitious work, comprising massive squarepiers with acanthus capitals and solid-looking entablatures andbases of sheet metal,- copied from stone mouldings. The sidesare fiUed with panels of scrolls and bars with foliage, withheavy balustered bars below. They were perhaps made thusheavy to carry leaden wolves brought by sea. Between thepiers and gates are two broad panels of scroll and leaf design, ofa larger scale and distinctly inferior to the gates. The grandioseoverthirow Stretches from pier to pier, and consists of a base of twobands of foliated scrolls, the upper one heavily moulded and witha large mask, and pyramids of scrolls over the panels. Overthese again is a third band of stiff leaves and masks under an > Oi. g amKO Q H <o 2u u DOOCd o h a
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