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Description: | Large public fountain, with circular pool, four rectagular buttresses in a cruciform arrangement supporting female allegorical figures, a peristyle based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates surmounted by a quattrefoil bowl supported by entwined sea monsters. The female figures represent, clockwise from the north west, Science, Literature, Commerce and Art. Additional decorative details include signs of the Zodiac and naturalistic scenes. | Subjects: | Ornamental Fountain | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Foundry: Walter Macfarlane & Co Sculptor: Stevenson, David Watson | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7837... | Go to resource |
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