Lead Piping Boy Fountain with Terracotta Plinth c.1880

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Lead Piping Boy Fountain with Terracotta Plinth c.1880A delightful lead figure of a delicately featured boy playing pipes on associated terracotta plinth. c. 1880 Created as a fountain, but equally wonderful as a stand alone garden sculpture. This ethereal work of art takes us back to the sunshine filled peristyles of Greece and Rome, of dappled shade and the sound and sight of shimmering waters. Imagine him standing in the 17th to 18th century parterres of English formal gardens, created in the 1880s

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Dark and light

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is inspired by a Roman original now housed in The British Museum

carved around 1480

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