Bowl cascade fountain

originally surrounded by 7 bronze spheres

The shape of the 60 geometrically staggered bowls is reminiscent of a pine cone.

pine cone.

"The pine cone can be traced back to Assyrian art. The ancient world used it as a gargoyle as early as the 2nd century BC. (...) Because of its many scales, it was considered a symbol of fertility and of life in general (as in the cult of Mithras), and therefore it also appears in Christian art as the crowning of the fountain of life."

(Dictionary of Art / Johannes Hahn / Alfred Kröner Verlag Stuttgart, 1989)

Bowl cascade fountain

originally surrounded by 7 bronze spheres

The shape of the 60 geometrically staggered bowls is reminiscent of a pine cone.

pine cone.

"The pine cone can be traced back to Assyrian art. The ancient world used it as a gargoyle as early as the 2nd century BC. (...) Because of its many scales, it was considered a symbol of fertility and of life in general (as in the cult of Mithras), and therefore it also appears in Christian art as the crowning of the fountain of life."

(Dictionary of Art / Johannes Hahn / Alfred Kröner Verlag Stuttgart, 1989)

Bowl cascade fountain

originally surrounded by 7 bronze spheres

The shape of the 60 geometrically staggered bowls is reminiscent of a pine cone.

pine cone.

"The pine cone can be traced back to Assyrian art. The ancient world used it as a gargoyle as early as the 2nd century BC. (...) Because of its many scales, it was considered a symbol of fertility and of life in general (as in the cult of Mithras), and therefore it also appears in Christian art as the crowning of the fountain of life."

(Dictionary of Art / Johannes Hahn / Alfred Kröner Verlag Stuttgart, 1989)

Bowl cascade fountain

originally surrounded by 7 bronze spheres

The shape of the 60 geometrically staggered bowls is reminiscent of a pine cone.

pine cone.

"The pine cone can be traced back to Assyrian art. The ancient world used it as a gargoyle as early as the 2nd century BC. (...) Because of its many scales, it was considered a symbol of fertility and of life in general (as in the cult of Mithras), and therefore it also appears in Christian art as the crowning of the fountain of life."

(Dictionary of Art / Johannes Hahn / Alfred Kröner Verlag Stuttgart, 1989)

Bowl cascade fountain

originally surrounded by 7 bronze spheres

The shape of the 60 geometrically staggered bowls is reminiscent of a pine cone.

pine cone.

"The pine cone can be traced back to Assyrian art. The ancient world used it as a gargoyle as early as the 2nd century BC. (...) Because of its many scales, it was considered a symbol of fertility and of life in general (as in the cult of Mithras), and therefore it also appears in Christian art as the crowning of the fountain of life."

(Dictionary of Art / Johannes Hahn / Alfred Kröner Verlag Stuttgart, 1989)