[Sca-cooks] Table Fountains

[Elise Fleming]

Stefan wrote:
>Various examples of these fountains. "The 
>surviving example in the museum at Cleveland (ohio), despite its 
>missing basin and foot, gives some impression of the magnificence of 
>these pieces, whose sole purpose was to amaze."
> 
>So, anyone near Cleveland seen this?

Yup!  I did and it was fantastic.  I watched the computer reconstruction of
what it might have looked like in operation.  I was surprised to discover
that the fountain was much smaller than the photos had led me to believe.

Alys Katharine

Elise Fleming
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