{"id":5209,"date":"2011-11-15T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2011-11-15T06:04:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T06:04:20","slug":"patronage-and-the-lovliest-dolphin-and-naked-boy-fountain-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/patronage-and-the-lovliest-dolphin-and-naked-boy-fountain-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Patronage &#8211; and the lovliest dolphin and naked boy fountain in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5216\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/boy_naked_fountain_dolphin_beautiful1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/boy_naked_fountain_dolphin_beautiful1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"boy_naked_fountain_dolphin_beautiful\" width=\"204\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/boy_naked_fountain_dolphin_beautiful1.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/boy_naked_fountain_dolphin_beautiful1-153x300.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolphin boy fountain by David Wynne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I once worked in the garden of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Wynne_%28sculptor%29\">David Wynne<\/a>, who made this fountain &#8211; and am glad that his client was not the Caliph El Madhi<\/p>\n<p><em>What a beautiful fountain, with the silver dolphin and the naked boy!<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p CALIPH<br \/>\n<em>A Greek of Constantinople made it, who came travelling hither in the days of my father, the Caliph El Madhi (may earth be gentle to his body and Paradise refreshing to his soul!). He showed this fountain to my father, who was exceptionally pleased, and asked the Greek if he could make more as fine.  &#8220;A hundred,&#8221; replied the delighted infidel.  Whereupon my father cried, &#8220;Impale the pig.&#8221;  Which having been done, this fountain remains the loveliest in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fountain delighted David Wynne&#8217;s clients and, I guess, it pleases most visitors to Tower Bridge in London. My advice to those who commission public art is: beware of abstract art. They should think in terms of cultural strata. However much the the organizer of a disco may adore Karlheinz Stockhausen, it would not be a popular choice for the playlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once worked in the garden of the David Wynne, who made this fountain &#8211; and am glad that his client was not the Caliph El Madhi What a beautiful fountain, with the silver dolphin and the naked boy!.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}