Fountain
Crowther Limited
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Lead
Place of origin
Chiswick
Order this imageCollection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 761593
Summary
Lead, 'Hush Boy', manufactured H. Crowther Ltd, 20th century. A lead cast of the 'Hush Boy' bird bath by H. Crowther of Chiswick, after a mid-19th century model by the Val D'Osne Foundry, Paris. The ornament in the form of an infant boy sitting cross-legged with drapery on the edge of an upturned scallop shell, the boy raising his proper left index finger to his mouth to make the hush gesture. Adapted as a fountain and installed as the centrepiece of a basin in the Rose Garden.
Makers and roles
Crowther Limited, founder