Harp - Stockholm, Sweden
N 59° 19.845 E 018° 04.307
34V E 333418 N 6580544
Molins Fontän (English: Molin's Fountain) is located in Kungsträdgården (English: King's Garden), a park in downtown Stockholm, Sweden. One of the figures in the fountain is playing a harp.
Waymark Code: WMPED0
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date Posted: 08/17/2015
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"Johan Peter Molin created a plaster fountain sculpture for the large Scandinavian Exhibition in Kungsträdgården 1866. It was popular and a collection was started "to enable the Molin fountain to be cast in metal".
The subject of the piece is Stockholm’s water-dominated location. The filled bowl at the top represents Lake Mälaren and the pool itself is the Baltic Sea. Seeking to illustrate the meeting of the ocean god with the rulers of the inland lake, the sculptor has placed the ocean gods Aegir and Ran in the niches, who with their nine daughters listen to the Näcken, the ruling water-sprite, playing his harp.
However, the fountain was seen as a luxury and, in order to placate the critics, Molin added six swans to the lower part of the sculpture. The general public could fetch drinking water from their beaks. The fountain is still surrounded by the willows planted at its inauguration in 1873."
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