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 Lad\' 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 



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FIG 2j6. — LION MASK FOR FOUNTAIN. 



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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 

 g. rectangular tank at 



Marsh Court (Figs. 208 



and 209). In all 



these examples the 



sculptor has shown 



her felicitous sense 



of the right treat- 



o f animal 



She has 



for example, 



exact repre- 



a tor- 



inter- 



m ent 

 forms 

 shown, 

 not an 

 sentation of 

 toise, but 



an 



FIG. 218 — LEAD TORTOISE BY LADY CHANCE. 



pretation of one. 



