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Flower-pot gates at Hampton Court, by Wren

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The "Flower-pot" gates at Hampton Court, designed by Wren and erected about 1699. They are of Portland Stone, surmounted by leaden figures of amorini bearing up baskets of fruit and flowers, by Jan Van Nost.