C. Italy early seventeenth century
It is a fixture that you see every day in plumbers' shop windows. Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the fountain has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.
Their purpose was to serve their dead master in the after-life they referred to as the "Field of Reeds" when they would live a mirror image of one's life on earth. Some were made just for specific tasks, some were for multiple tasks.
