An Austro-Hungarian Fountain Centrepiece
An Austro-Hungarian Fountain Centrepiece
Vienna, 1847
Possibly maker’s mark of Johann Kosel, marked 'IK' Marked on base, bowl and finial
Height: 71 cm, 28 in.
Weight: 7,729 g, 248 oz 10 dwt
On domed oval base, cast and chased as rockwork and with shells, supporting three cast mermaids surrounding a branch cast stem and below a central flute bowl, with a further branch-cast stem with a finial cast as two putto. Formed as three mermaids on a rocky shell-strewed outcrop surmounted by woody stem and putti below a cornucopia.
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