Focus on this artwork and explain the Design.
The fountain was located at the centre of the public space in front of the  Old City Hall on Queen's Road Central, it served as the architectural focal point of the symmetrical facade of the City Hall.
The fountain was built with stucco, the centre had 4 caryatids supporting a basin, on the top of the basin there was a kneeling figure of a child. On the parameter, the fountain area was guarded by 4 couchant stone lions at 4 corners, each facing to the principal points of the compass. A plaques bore an inscription that the fountain was "presented to the Colony by Mr. John Dent in 1864".
Old City Hall Queen's Road Central caryatid stucco fountain