Jean Tijou, French master blacksmith and designer, was
commissioned by William III to create a dozen elaborate
iron screens for the gardens at Hampton Court Palace.
These flamboyant gilded screens with scrolling acanthus
leaves became a magnificent backdrop to the grandeur
and opulence of the Privy Garden, the King’s private
riverside garden, where they still stand today. Painstakingly
hand-drawn and hand-painted, Tijou Gate is a wonderfully
ornamented panel design of ironwork and florals in bloom.