Victoria House, La Mortella Garden greenhouse grotto with giant water lily pad and La Bocca fountain, Ischia, Italy

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The tropical greenhouse, the “Victoria House,” contains a pool which is dominated by the “Bocca,” a sculpture by Simon Verity that reproduces the mask painted by the British artist John Piper on the curtain for performances of Façade (William Walton’s famous setting of poems by Edith Sitwell)

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Photo credit: © Carole Anne Ferris / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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