Two leaves climb through a long S-curve to a peak at the centre joint, where a scrolled overthrow lifts a winged bird clear of the top rail. A circle set across the meeting stiles holds a heart of scrollwork around a second winged figure, and pierced wings fan out of it across the pickets to either side. Scroll-cut panels run inside the vertical bars, diamond studs sit along the solid bottom rail, and the finished gate is black.
The circle in the middle is split down the meeting stiles — half the ring, half the scroll field and half the bird are built into each leaf, so the two halves have to close into one round. The wings either side are cut from plate rather than bent from bar, which is what lets them fan that wide across the pickets and still carry feather detail at the tips.
Where The Inman Gate fills its opening with formed scroll from stile to stile, this design works in two registers at once: pierced plate for the wings and the medallion, drawn scroll for the crown and the borders. It wants distance. On a long approach the circle and the wings resolve well before you reach the gate, and it needs piers heavy enough to look like they belong under it.
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