The lid of the vase, also enwreathed with growing flowers, rises above the fountain.
The Neptune's grotto is of no great beauty; the water falls from an urn placed over it, and forms little waterfalls as it flows over nautilus-shells.
The marble palace lies on the other side of Potsdam, and is half an hour's distance from these palaces; but I had time enough to visit it.
Entering the park belonging to this palace, a row of neat peasants' cottages is seen on the left; they are all alike, but separated by fruit, flower, or kitchen-gardens.

The palace lies at the extreme end of the park, on a pretty lake formed by the river Havel.

It certainly has some right to the name of marble palace; but it seems presumption to call it so when compared to the marble palaces of Venice, or the marble mosques of Constantinople.
The walls of the building are of brick left in its natural colour.

The lower and upper frame-work, the window-sashes, and the portals, are all of marble.

The palace is partly surrounded by a gallery supported on marble columns.