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The Plymouth Fountain
c.1640RCIN 31742
This silver-gilt fountain shows marine scenes and figures of Neptune, Amphitrite and tritons with sea-monsters. The piece was described as the earliest example of an English wine fountain. In fact, it is German, and has been attributed to the Hamburg goldsmith Peter Oehr I. Descriptions of it in use in the seventeenth century say that it spouted coloured flames and perfumed waters.