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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



FIG. 219. LEAD DOLPHIN. FIG. 22O. GARGOYLE FOR GARDEN WALL. 



bringing to her work that just quality of convention which makes it art instead 

 of naturalistic imitation. Another pleasant lead spout for a garden fountain is the 



dolphin modelled by Mr. Cashmore, and 

 illustrated in Fig. 219. The gargoyle 

 designed by Mr. Voysey, and built up in 

 sheet lead, serves a rather different purpose 

 (Fig. 220). It is fixed to the front of a big 

 brick retaining wall at Littleholme, Guild- 

 ford (see also Fig. 102), and has a delightfully 

 grotesque quality that is suggestive of the 

 mediaeval craftsman. Its purpose is to 

 throw clear of the wall the surface water 

 drained from the terrace above. 



A combination of pool with wall foun- 

 tain which is singularly attractive is to be 

 seen at Hampton Court (Fig. 223). The 

 entwined dolphins spouting freshness into 

 a big shell owe no little to their intrinsic 

 charm as sculpture, and modern replicas 

 would, no doubt, be of greater cost than 

 the owners of most small gardens could 

 encompass, but their placing with reference 

 to the twin pools below is very happy and 

 suggestive. Though the atmosphere of 

 gardens does not demand that their orna- 

 ments shall be great sculpture, it occasion- 

 ally happens that a master hand models a 

 figure that finds its way into a garden 

 setting. The slender fountain at Wych 

 Cross Place, illustrated in Fig. 222, is a case 

 in point, for it is the work of that great 

 but erratic sculptor, Alfred Gilbert. The 

 bronze stem was modelled for some alto- 

 FIG. 221. HIPPOCAMPUS IN LEAD. gether different purpose. Upon it has been 



