Fountain: metal, possibly bronze; Base: brick; Basin: brick and stone
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures-Fountain
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Fuller Foundation 10 Willow Avenue Fuller Gardens North Hampton New Hampshire 03862
Date:
Ca. 1890
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1993.
Summary:
A fountain on a circular brick base in the center of a brick-lined basin with a stone curbing. At the top of the fountain sits a merman with a nude upper body and a scale-covered lower body that ends with two scaly lower limbs and flippers. He wears a wreath of cattails on his head and a shell on a necklace. He holds a horn to his mouth with his proper right hand. A turtle rests in front of the merman. The merman is placed atop a wide upper basin shaped in a leaf-like design with a rippled edge. The upper basin rests on a pedestal decorated with cattails, rushes, vines, and other plants. At the front of the pedestal, a frog looks out from under a lily pad. Perched above the frog on a vine is a small bird that stares down at it. At the rear of the pedestal, a fish is found under a lily pad and a small bird perched in the foliage stares down at it. On the side of pedestal stands a heron-like bird with long legs and a long beak. On other side of the pedestal, stands another heron-like bird with its wings partly raised and its proper left foot placed on the back of a small turtle.
