A water fountain or Acquaio. An elliptical basin on a baluster shaped pedestal is framed on each side by two pilasters carved with candelabra, foliage, birds and grotesques, terminating in two foliated capitals. Above is a moulding and a frieze, the latter carved with foliated ornament, in the centre of which is a ribbed shell containing an animal; thought by Pope-Hennessy to be a hind standing on a label, but subsequently identified as a beaver by Brenda Preyer. The frieze is surmounted by a projecting cornice. The central recess is further framed by two narrow inner pilasters with ears of wheat, poppy heads and other naturalistic ornament rising from vases. These narrow pilasters meet an inner cornice, above which the ornament continues on an arch.