Eros Fountain
Eros Fountain
Eros Fountain
Eros Fountain
Eros Fountain
Eros Fountain
Eros Fountain
Eros Fountain

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A replica of Gilbert's Memorial to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftsbury, executed for Piccadilly Circus, London. The lowest stage is a shallow octagonal basin of pot-bellied, decorated at eight corners with mouldings in the shape of childlike helmeted figures, each with a pair of fish, which served as console brackets for the dishes that once held the chained drinking cups. A pedestal rises from the centre, decorated at each corner, with a pair of sleeping baby heads. A series of eight smaller basins rise up. Above each basin a helmeted merbaby grasping the tail of a fish in his left hand and a smaller fish in his right. Above the cistern rises the vertical sequence of pedestal, urn, and Eros, only the ball of Eros's left foot making contact with the nautilus-shaped perch, his right leg sweeping out behind him as he hurls himself forward to release an arrow from his bow.

Title

Eros Fountain

Date

1932

Medium

bronze & aluminium

Measurements

H 188 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 1097 x W 518 x D 518 cm

Accession number

L17_MH_S212

Acquisition method

purchased by public subscription

Work type

Water fountain, trough or pump

Owner

Liverpool City Council

Custodian

Liverpool City Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

23rd July 1932

Listing date

14/03/75

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

base: A. B. BURTON / FOUNDER

Inscription description

plaque: THIS FOUNTAIN IS A REPLICA / OF THE / SHAFTSBURY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN / …BY / SIR ALFRED GILBERT…,

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Located at

Sefton Park, Merseyside

L17 1AP

Located at the drinking fountain at the north end of the lake, Aigburth Drive.