Design for an entrance gate to the court of the castle of Schilde
A record in the 1736 accounts of architect Jan Peter van Baurscheit the Younger (1699-1768) reads as follows: 'Geteekent en gevasseert tot het teekenen van de poorte, int clijn en int groot om naer de putten te zenden, alsoock de ysere deuren int groot geteekent, saemen in differente reysen 8 daegen a een alf pistael par dach is ¿57"17"'. (The drawing and checking of a large and a small design for the gate, to be sent to the quarries, also the iron gates drawn large; all together in various visits, 8 days at half a pistael per day, making a total of¿ 57"17"). The word 'putten' is used to mean the quarries of stonecutter Jean Baptiste Lisse at Feluy. Here we have the 'small design for the gate' referred to in the register. The entrance gate has been preserved, but of the vases only the socles have survived. The identification of this drawing was published by Frans Baudouin in Jan Peter Baurscheit the Younger, architect (1699-1768), in Lira Elegans, yearbook 4, 1994.
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