Europe - Fountains

Water fountain in ceramic mineral finish Decorative ceramic fountain Antique finish of natural stone.

Large zinc fountain with life-size representation of Venus (h: 155cm) on stylized rock base with fountain wreath. The fountain was made 1880 by J. L. Mott Iron...

This timeless beautiful Italian classical double sink is cut from one single block of marble, the design has not changed since Greek and Roman times, it carries superb artistic merit easily fitting in with old and new buildings. It also makes an excellent outdoor water fountain...

Delighful bronze garden fountain the Art Nouveau manner Figural form showing four garden fairys or nymphs with wings Verdis gris patina to some parts of the bronze Water inlet at ...

This timeless beautiful Italian classical sink is cut from one single block of white marble, these designs have not changed since Greek and Roman times, it carries superb artistic me...

The most elegant of the Genesi fountains, it's a pleasure to the eyes and to the ears. The Raku elements let the water flow perpetually from the tallest to the smallest recipient and finally into the large vessel creating a soothing sound while the ripples on the water will create a slow game with the bottom of the large container. The water that flows into different vessels symbolises life and is a metaphor for no one is untouched by what is around him, and that everything is connected. This fountain can donate any interior a relaxing corner and repose to the mind of the listener...

Round marble fountain basin on conical shaft and square plinth and discreet leaf frieze on the tulip-shaped wall.

This timeless beautiful Italian classical double sink is cut from one single block of white Carrara marble, the design has not changed since Greek and Roman times, it carries superb artistic merit easily fitting in with old and new buildings. It also makes an excellent outdoor water fountain...

This antique stone mask was probably used in a fountain. It is a very decorative Italian antique object. The mask fits as decorative object on a bureau o...

This circular well from the Louis XIV period is entirely carved in stone. The shaft of the well is composed of an eight pieces arrangement forming a "boudin" molding. The curbstone is marked by the patina of time and is thus irregular in shape. The base of the well is surmounted by a stone structure composed of two trapezoidal molded stones that hold a wooden winch and its chain. The whole base is topped by a one piece stone roof, the upper edge of which forms a four slope roof. While on one stone is engraved the date "1830", we believe that this stone well...

Incredible Italian bronze fountain that stands in at over 8 feet tall Two main tiers with the top surmounted by the cherub statue Second tier...

An Indonesian lacquered root stand from the 20th century drilled to work as a fountain. Created in Indonesia during the 20th century, this stand captures our attention with its intri...

Giant shell fountain the structure is in iron and the springs are in authentic giant shell (Tridacna gigas) the arms are mobile and have the shape of a veg...

A wonderful pair of midcentury French cast concrete garden fountains with medieval heads to the basins. These could have decorative fountain statues pla...

Classical Style Carved Marble Stone Sink Basin This timeless beautiful Italian classical sink is cut from one single block of white marble, these designs have not changed since Gree...

Wonderful bronze Italian fountain with classical maidens Stands in at over 8 feet tall - 250 cm Maidens stand back to back around central column holding the amphora urns Top tier ...

Regence style garden fountain with double basin in stone, Very elegant construction, this sculpted fountain can be a central focus. It could be placed on a basin in a larger basin.

Wall fountain with small basin with profiled wall and segmental top with shell decoration.

Delightful large bronze Italian fountain adorned with maidens and muses The piece is nearly 8 feet tall - 238 CM so good size The central column is supported by the four toga clad ...

Art Nouveau bronze sculptural tray indoor fountain with seated nude holding a vase signed by Suzanne Bizard. Patinated bronze on impressive marble tr...

Large wall fountain made of Pietra di Vicenza with rectangular basin and curved back wall with volute decoration and central cartouche. Basin Heigh...

Executed by Michael Powolny for the Wienerberger Keramikwerkstätten, ceramic and stoneware, ochre colored, body holding a dish in her outstretched arms standing above a three-tired Cascade of basins with fluted decoration. One image shows the model of the fountain in the studio of the "Gebrueder Schwadron" in Vienna, circa 1910-1914. Literature: Karl Maria Grimme, Gärten von Albert Esch, Wien, Leipzig 1931 p.29. Elisabeth Frottier, Michael Powolny, Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900...

Spanish Marble Shell Hand-Carved

Early 20th Century Urban Cast Iron Fountain with a low-lying sink. It comprises a column that supports a square structure and presents, on each face, a semicircular profile crowned w...

Marble wall fountain.

Made from Bourgondian marble stone type Chassagne Rose from France. (The quarry already closed for years).

A splendid and imposing work by Ravi Sing consisting of a metal and fibreglass basin, here are three cylinders with bodies decorated with relief lines of dif...

Antique wine barrel plug made of cork and bronze.

This 19th century antique cast iron statue fountain. Fantastic, vibrant patina with traces of ancient paint.

Large courtly fountain out of handcut and hand carved marble in a neoclassical style. The three graces surround the central column, above is another basin with waterspouts in the sha...

This timeless beautiful Italian classical sink is cut from one single block of white marble with poly chrome inlays, the straight fronted format has fine rhombus inlaid details enclo...

Beautiful and rare 19th century buff terracotta quatrefoil fountain basin, by James Pulham and Sons of Broxbourne. This fantastic piece is in a very good condition and is beautifu...

Exceptional Murano glass fountain with large leaves glass orange Murano with structure. The Design and the quality of the glass make this piece the best of the italian Design. This unique Fountain with gold finish glass murano are exceptional. This Pieces of Arts glass show the exclusive design of Italian Designer in 1960/70. This chandelier are in good Condition. All the piece we add are checked and changed if necessary! before sendind we will update the water pompe and the complete water tube . we have 2 gold angel on the picture , will deliverie with four ! one have a little defect in one hand . All circle flowers are complete !!! and all fountain are lighting . picture Photo in operation available before shipping! work perfectly. We prefer to keep the original condition as much as possible than replacement if possible. All of our products are originally wired for 220v, so also work at 110v for the USA. Delivery without bulbs. Organizing the expedition: first step! in order to ensure safe transport, the fountain will be disassembled and carefully packaged. Plastic bubble and protection. Only sending by wood...

A Period Antique Double Sink with superb proportion and period detailing made in Carrara marble Circa 1850 Width 53.5" cm 136 Depth 22" ...

The smallest version of the Genesi fountain series is capable of creating a calming and relaxing corner in any interior with its mourmoring waterfalls. Three Raku elements stand in ...

Antique French fountain basin can be used as a planter or jardinière This item also may have served of children bath tub Very old, the wood wor...

Organic pod form fountain. Natural clay body with glaze pod interior. Created 2019 by Brent J. Bennett, US (signed). Including water pump with US plug. Brent J. Bennett has achieved a worldwide reputation for design excellence. His goal over the last 50 years has been to create beautiful designed, quality pieces that other people enjoy. Most of his work has been architecturally oriented, such as large murals, outdoor furniture, and fountains. His background includes a BA degree from UCSB, two years graduate study at UCLA with Laura Anderson...

Superb Italian wall fountain. Featuring lion head decoration and its original paintwork, this fountain is extremely eye-catching. It has its original copper reservoir and copper fi...

The mightiest of the Genesi fountains. Its large Raku components are already a masterpiece by themselves, combined in the form of this perpetual murmuring fountain become something m...

Luna sink sculpted from a solid piece of Jurassic Marble, with Nerineas fossils, in raw finish, unless the basin that is honed finish; with a conical bronze base. Sink size: Ø98x h74...

A grey and red marble birdbath. It rests on a shaft in the form of a ringed column. The capital of water leaves is in patinated bronze. The round basin wit...

Ancient large stone fountain with Italian washbasin 19th century Measures: Height 180 cm Width 150 cm Depth 55 cm Thickness 15 cm Weight 180...

Pair of gargoyles in fanciful design and decorative patina. Dimensions owl: 235 x 75 x 80 cm, flute player: 196.5 x 80 x 73 cm.

1990s French natural terracotta lion with shield garden sculpture.     

A genuine reclaimed church font from a small welsh parish in mid-wales. Dating to 1863 when St Johns Church, Llanbrynmair was built, this original sandston...

Zinc fountain in the form of a goblin. Denmark or Germany, late 19th century. Beautifully executed with many nice details. In original untouched condition with great natural patina. Goblins are mischievous beings from European folklore. Goblins were the inspiration for creatures created in the book "The Lord of the Rings". Tolkien used them in the Hobbit...

The sculptural head shaped water features hand-turned in ceramic, produced by Mobach in Utrecht during the 1960's. Mobach produced this unique mat bronze lustre glaze has a result of...

Large bronze figurative sculptural fountain by Canpiola Italian, c. 1910 Measures: Height 130cm, width 67cm, depth 54cm This impressive bronze fountain is finished with a beauti...

Pair of Leeds Fireclay Co. LEFCO Seal Garden Fountains, dating to circa 1930 Signed T Ashbridge Additional information 50kg total for both.

A late 19th century French terracotta figure of a boy with a water pitcher, usable as either a statue or as a garden fountain. Dating from circa 1900, this handcrafted terracotta statue is over 120 years old and features beautiful weathering that can only be achieved by exposure to the elements over many years. The boy is depicted with locks of curling hair and holds the pitcher as if pouring water...

Marble fountain designed by Matteo Thun. Size: Ø cm. 39 x 100 H Materials: Bardiglio Imperiale + Grigio Oliva+Nero Marquina Designed by: Matteo Thun.

Marble fontain "Fontana" designed by Arch. Achille Castiglioni. Size: ø cm. 180 x 43 x 190 H Materials: Bardiglio Imperiale+ Bianco Carrara Designed by: Achille Castiglioni.

Sea monster Carrara marble mouth fountain Italy, late 16th century It measures 13.8 x 31.5 x 18.9 in (35 x 80 x 48 cm) State of conservation: some small evident gaps and widespread signs of wear due to outdoor exposure. The gray marks crossing it do not come from restoration, but are rather the natural veins of the marble. This work has some morphological characteristics typically associated with the iconography of the sea monster: an elongated muzzle, sharp teeth, protruding eyes, elongated ears, and a coiled serpent's tail. An in-depth series of studies on artistic depictions of the sea monster attempted to verify how this symbol evolved in antiquity in the European and Mediterranean contexts and how it gradually changed its image and function over time. The iconography itself is mutable and imaginative and its history is rich with cultural and artistic exchange, as well as the overlapping of ideas. This occurred so much that it is difficult to accurately pinpoint the "types" that satisfactorily represent its various developments. However, we can try to summarize the main figures, starting from the biblical Leviathan and the marine creature that swallowed Jonah (in the Christian version, this figure was to become a whale or a "big fish", the “ketos mega”, translation of the Hebrew “dag gadol”). Other specimens ranged from the dragons mentioned in the Iliad (which were winged and had legs) to "ketos” (also from Greek mythology), the terrifying being from whose Latinized name (“cetus”) derives the word "cetacean". See J. Boardman, “Very Like a Whale” - Classical Sea Monsters, in Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, in Papers presented in Honor of Edith Porada, Mainz am Rhein 1987, pp. 73-84). In Italy the monster underwent yet further variations: it can be found in Etruscan art on the front of some sarcophagi representing the companion of souls, while among the Romans we find the “Pistrice” (cited by Plinio in Naturalis Historia PLIN., Nat., II 9, 8 and by Virgilio in Eneide: VERG., Aen., III, 427), which appeared in the shape of a stylized hippocampus or a very large monstrous cetacean and evolved into a hideous being with a dragon's head and long webbed fins. During the Middle Ages, the sea monster was the object of new transformations: at this time, it is often winged, the head is stretched like a crocodile, the front legs are often very sharp fins - sometimes real paws - until the image merges with dragons, the typical figures of medieval visionary spirituality widely found throughout Europe (on this topic and much more, see: Baltrušaitis, J., Il Medioevo fantastico. Antichità ed esotismi nell’arte gotica, Gli Adelphi 1997). In Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries, the revival of classicism - representative of the humanistic and Renaissance periods - led to a different reading of these "creatures". Indeed, the sea monster was also to find widespread use as an isolated decorative motif, especially in numerous fountains and sculptures where dolphins or sea monsters were used as a characterizing element linked to water (on this theme see: Chet Van Duzer, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, London, The British library, 2013). From the morphological point of view, the "sea monsters" of this period are mostly depicted as hybrid figures, in which the body of a mythological or real being (a hippocampus, a sea snake, a dolphin), is joined to a head with a rather indistinct appearance. It was usually characterized by large upright ears, an elongated snout, sharp teeth and globular, protruding eyes; a complex and indefinite figure, both from the symbolic point of view and from that of its genesis. The work we are examining is placed as a cross between the medieval sea serpent and the Renaissance dolphin, with stylistic features which recall the snake as often used in heraldry (such as the "snake" depicted in the coat of arms of the Visconti - the lords and then dukes of Milan between 1277 and 1447 - and which, for some, may be derived from the representations of the “Pistrice” that swallowed Jonah). In the search for sources, Renaissance cartography and in particular woodcuts should not be neglected. See for example the monsters of Olaus Magnus, from the editions of the “Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus” (“History of the peoples of the north”) and the natural histories of Conrad Gesner, Ulisse...

Naively executed water fontaine figurine/top in patinated copper. Its a piece unique made by an anonymous Danish sculptor/artist during the 1970s. When we found it was displayed as a...

Limited edition fountain in marble and bronze. (central column - limited edition of 7 pieces only) The central column can possibly be mounted inside a marble basin to be built local...

A rare early 18th century Italian wall fountain.

A characterful terracotta fountain group of a boy and dolphin by Blanchard (stamped); the perfect feature piece for a garden pool or pond. This 19th century buff terracotta fountain ...

Indian engraved silver table fountain by Oomersi Mawji & Sons Indian, late 19th century Measures: Height 40cm, width 23cm, depth 21cm This exceptional table fountain is by the c...