ON DERBYSHIRE PLUMBERY, OR WORKINGS IN LEAD. 



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Montagu. 



The highly elaborate work of the down-pipe, with 

 its large cistern head and em- 

 bossed wall fasteners, to be 

 noted near the entrance in 

 the lower court, must have 

 been cast and placed here 

 after this marriage, for the shield 

 on the highest joint of the pipe 

 bears three lozenges in /esse for 

 Montagu. Otherwise we should 

 have been inclined to have as- 

 signed to this work a somewhat 

 earlier date. The respective 

 crests of the Vernon and Man- 

 ners families — a boar's head 

 erased, and a peacock displayed — 

 occur frequently upon this and 

 other pipes of the lower court- 

 yard. There is one very remark- 

 able feature about this cistern 

 head, which is shared by others 

 at Haddon, but which we have 

 not noted nor heard of else- 

 where, namely, that it has a 

 false front, which enables some 

 of the patterns to be cut 

 through and pierced, so that 

 the pattern shows sharp and 

 clear against the shade of the 

 inner and true cistern head. This arrangement adds much 

 to the effect. The three upper circular ornaments of this 

 illustration, namely, those on each side of the upper boar's head 

 and the one immediately below, are thus treated. 



