STAiVKS OX (.ATKPIKRS 



them to the third quartc r 



their pro|&amp;gt;er colours, and the familiar blue gown and 



yellow stockings would have attracted the passer-by 



and incited him to charity more vigorously than if left in 



the natural grey of the unpaiuted lead. 



About the gatepiers at Hall Place, .Maidenhead, 



the residence of Sir (iilbert A. Clayton Kast, there is 



a gayer atmosphere (I ig. --.5). The children there hear 



a rake and haytork, and suggest th&amp;gt; care ol the trim 



lawns within the gates thev guard. 1 hey are pleasant 



little people; the maiden with the lork has a string 



of (lowers round her neck, and her hair is twisted into 



an engaging little knot. The gates are no at the main 



entrance, hut lead to the Swan (iarden. They were not 



made for Hal! Place, but came Iroin a house at Hampton 



Court. As they bear the initials J.K.,&quot; and as there 



lias been no John in the Kast family -ince the John 



Kast who died in 1079, it seems reasonable to assign 



of the seventeenth cenlnrv, 

 an a s s u in p - 

 tion which is 

 supported by 

 the d e s i g n 

 ol the ;;ates 

 t li e in sc Ives, 

 though the 

 little lead 

 figures in .1 v 

 very well be 

 of some fifty 

 years later. 

 It was not 

 until the 



Revolution of 1(189 all( l &quot; accession of \Villiam 111 

 that lead statues came into the great voj^ue which 

 they enjoyed until I7&amp;gt; S J, when John Cheere died 

 and his leadyard at Hyde Park Corner was 

 clos; (1. He was the successor in business of 

 Jan Van Nost, a Dutchman who followed William 

 to Kngland, and turned out figures in such 

 great numbers that they can still be traced 

 in a score of Knglish gardens. It is not necessary 

 to attribute every lead statue to him, as lie had 

 competitors in Scheemakers, Charpentk-r and others ; 

 but many of the most popular types can safely be 

 attributed to him. 



Another illustration sho\\s one ol a delight till 

 pair of leaden Cupids at Temple Dins ey, which 

 stand not on the piers of the gates themselves, 

 but at the end of the curved stretches of railing 

 which enclose the forecourt. These figures are 

 of about 1720, and though, like most of the similar 

 work ol the period, they lack any marked distinction 

 ifiid sculpture, they have the pleasant sentimental 

 air which befits garden ornaments. 



The pictures show how attractive the piers 

 of entrance gates, otherwise uninteresting, may 

 be made by the addition of little figures. Lead 

 or stone vases are also suitable to give the 

 same sense of finish ; but a word of warning 

 may be added. Such vases should not be of a 

 type that seems to demand use as a flower-pot. 



t fl Il) AT I KMI I.K DINSI.ICV. 



223. A BLUECOAT BOY IN LEAD 



