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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…,