Indian Fountain with Fire & Water Motif | Primitive Exclusive

White marble, nine small arches, and nowhere to hide a drip.

This fountain with fire and water motif is marble, from India, 20th century. Water features were a central pleasure of Mughal gardens and palaces, and Indian marble carvers have kept the vocabulary alive. A shallow square basin edged with leaf-like or flame-like forms sits on a gallery of small cusped arches. Below, the pedestal holds two large arched niches, above a broad band of teardrop petals on a stepped base. Thirty-three inches high and 34 wide.

Fire and water agree here, which is unusual.