Water in the Formal Garden. 



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in the Berkshire garden (Fig. 21) and at 

 Little Boarhunt (Fig. 67). 



The design of standing fountains is 

 generally the outcome of combining two 

 elements a basin and some sculptured 

 fancy that discharges the water. The 

 various types of pools illustrated in this 

 chapter are capable of being supplemented 

 by little spouting figures, such as are illus- 

 trated in Chapter XIX., which is concerned 

 with statues. The Boy and Dolphin shown 

 there would look well, for example, in a pool 

 like that of Fig. 191. Smaller conceits, how- 

 ever, take an attractive place on tanks of 

 limited size. In Fig. 217 is shown the section 

 of a simple round basin, for which Lady Chance 

 modelled a very attractive tortoise, cast in 

 lead (Fig. 218), and some toads. Other ex- 

 amples of fountain sculpture by the same 

 skilful hand are the hippocampus of Fig. 221 and the lion mask of Fig. 216. The 

 latter is for a wall fountain discharging into a bowl built up in tilework 





FIG 2l6. LION MASK FOR FOUNTAIN. 



FIG. 217. SECTION OF BASIN WITH LEAD TORTOISES ON RIM. 



(Fig. 215), designed by Mr. Lutyens. The hippocampus is a delightful beast, spouting 

 from his muzzle, and was used in a group of four disposed symmetrically on the 



outer margin of the 

 rectangular tank at 

 Marsh Court (Figs. 208 

 and 209). In all 

 these examples the 

 sculptor has shown 

 her felicitous sense 

 of the right treat- 

 ment of animal 

 forms. She has 

 shown, for example, 

 not an exact repre- 

 sentation of a tor- 

 toise, but an inter- 



FIG. 2l8. LEAD TORTOISE BY LADY CHANCE. pretatlOn of One, 



