Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 122
it should be in front of a cast-iron foundryor junk shop. WELL HEADS In many of the gardens of Americanshow places will be found richly sculp-tured capitals of classic columns, some-times wrongly called Venetian wellcurbs or well heads. They are sup-posed to have come from Venice, wherein truth it… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES The opening of these cisterns was gen-erally covered with a hollow circular pieceof stone that serv^ed the purpose of pro-tection and at the same time allowed thewater within to be of easy access. Oldcolumn capitals were hollowed out andplaced over the cisterns. These…
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