The eyes of the statue were cunningly made of some enamel which gave them a strange and lifelike appearance.

They stared upwards as though looking away from the earth and its concerns.

The arms were outstretched.

In the right hand was a cup of black marble, in the left a similar cup of white marble.
From each of these cups trickled a thin stream of sparkling water, which two streams met and mingled at a distance of about three feet beneath the cups.

Then they fell into a metal basin which, although it must have been quite a foot thick, was cut right through by their constant impact, and apparently vanished down some pipe beneath.