English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft (1911)
Gardner, John Starkie, 1844-1930 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 167
r a mask, acanthus leaves, and family crest. Thefilling of the piers and the scrolled border above are as at St. Marys,Oxford (Fig. 63), and the gates are plain with long drops to thehorizontals, a scrolled lock-rail, and very peculiar dog-bars whichare shaped into ellipses and circles below the… … The English School of Smiths WE have now traced the work of Tijous great disciples,who early in the eighteenth century created the demand,for richly-wrought iron work in the Western and Midland counties,which they parcelled out and worked between them as if by mutualarrangement. None of their work…
Ironwork · Decoration and ornament, English · Architecture
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