HYLAND
There is a marvelous conceit about this interior folly,
as the nine thousand, five-inch square, hand-painted
terracotta tiles portray images, several of long-lost
chateaux set in splendid gardens. The gardens depicted
include those of Versailles, St. Petersburg's Menshikov
Palace, Chateau de Marlay, Chateau du Saint-Cloud
and Laincourt. Marlay, ultimately a grand chateau and
garden,appears originally to have been conceived by
Louis XIV as a garden folly, a hermitage removed from
Versailles. Quite fittingly, a pavilion at Versailles called
the "Trianon de Porcelaine", another, a tiled palace in
St. Petersburg are particularly dazzlingly depicted.
Molyneux, as is his marque, commissioned paintings of
these scenes, based upon 18
th
century engravings.
