Tabletop Architecture Depicting A Louis XIV Style City Fountain, In Various Marbles

This city fountain, crafted from various pink and white marbles, is a true "object of curiosity." Its curved pediment, adorned with projecting stones in a molded pattern and featuring oculi, is set within a corner structure. A niche containing an urn-shaped basin and a stalactite-like basin rests on a terrace bordered by chain posts. This beautiful and substantial decorative piece is a high-quality classical design teeming with detail; a rare and unique masterpiece, the kind one might have seen at the gates of Paris at the end of the 17th century. With its broken sides, this ornamental structure is unique, playing with the light from its projecting stones and rough (unpolished or unvarnished) surfaces. This gives the piece a striking realism and offers a high-class neoclassical decoration. A quality work by a master marble craftsman, in good condition, dating from the 19th century.