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HOUSE & GARDEN 
RECENT TABLE 
FOUNTAINS 
BY AMERICAN 
SCULPTORS 
ELIZABETH 
LOUNSBERY 
Photographs by courtesy of the Gorham 
Company 
Boy and Fishes" is another attractive treat¬ 
ment of the child’s figure and represents the 
latest example of Edith Woodman Bur- 
rough’s charming work. This is somewhat 
larger than the other fountains 
Laura Gardin’s interpretation of "The Boy and 
the Duck," executed for Mrs. E. H. Harri- 
man, is a charming childish petulant mood 
caught in bronze 
T HE table fountain, like the small 
decorative bronze, has found its pop¬ 
ularity, no doubt, not only through its 
decorative effect, but as the expression of 
the thought and soul of the sculptor in 
work that is created because he could not 
help it. 
No longer does one find bronze, es¬ 
pecially for intimate domestic use, in the 
old conventional forms, but rather it has 
become almost a decorative house neces¬ 
sity represented in work that is not only 
virile and beautiful, but so individual in 
character that each piece has its own 
peculiar appeal. 
Dainty in conception and execution and 
pleasing in the effect of tinkling water 
and glancing light, these are often used, 
as well without flowers. 
A gold bronze, I 2 inches high, by Carl 
Heber, is called "The Heron Girl," and 
represents a graceful nude holding a 
heron from whose beak a stream spouts 
upward. The bowl has a grey dull finish 
with golden brown inside 
The Flower Bearer,” by Anne Parish, rep¬ 
resents another type of fountain. An ex¬ 
quisitely modeled half-draped figure with 
raised arms holds a bowl. The bronze is 
coated with silver to harmonize with the 
table silver 
Surprise,” by Isador Kousti, shows the 
nude of a young girl gazing down in sur¬ 
prise at a frog on the rock beside her. 
Any flat bowl can be used with this foun¬ 
tain, as the figure and its base constitute 
a separate feature 
