The vases at Hampton Court mentioned above are particularly fine in design and well modelled; their height is about 2.3 and the little sitting figures, slight as they are, are charming in their pose; the folded arms and prettily arranged hair give us a suggestion of life which most of these things supposed to be in the classic taste lack. The inventory taken by the Commission at Hampton Court mentions “Fower large flower potts of lead.” Similar vases are in the gardens at Windsor, also larger and later examples with figure plaques in Flaxman’s manner. At Castle Hill, North Devon, there are ten vases, some with mouldings and gadroons formed in repoussé, others cast. At Melbourne in Derbyshire there is an enormous vase some seven or eight feet high in a very rococo style.[29] There is one at Penshurst, which comes from Old Leicester House in London; and at Sprotborough are others of similar design. These vases will not bear comparison with the beautiful lead Gothic fonts before given. [29] _The Formal Garden_, Blomfield and Thomas. [Illustration: FIG. 47.--Vase, Hampton Court.] [Illustration: FIG. 48.--From Vase, Hampton Court.] There are several vases at Wimpole near Cambridge, at Wilton, and at Wrest. Little square flower boxes with cast or repoussé devices on the sides were also made; Charles Lamb describes some flower pots for us from the gardens of Blakesware in Herefordshire, a fine old house, destroyed even when he wrote--“The owner of it had lately pulled it down; still I had a vague notion that it could not all have perished. _How shall they build it up again?_” There was a beautiful fruit garden and “ampler pleasure garden rising backwards from the house in triple terraces, with flower pots now of palest lead save that a spot here and there saved from the elements bespake their pristine state to have been gilt and glittering.” [Illustration: FIG. 49.--Vase, Castle Hill.] At Knole are a pair of circular pots figured on page 120. Circular baskets of open interlacing work and other forms were also made. [Illustration: FIG. 50.--Albert Gate.] [Illustration: FIG. 51.--Albert Gate.] Garden seats were also made entirely of lead. There are six lead seats at Castle Hill, North Devon; they are large square boxes with heavy “classic” forms, the top and ends imitating the folds of drapery. At Chiswick similar seats in every way were sculptured in stone. These show how lead should not be used. [Illustration: FIG. 52.--Vase on Gate Pier, Knole.]