Installed in the grounds of the Medical Garden as part of its comprehensive reconstruction in 1985–1988 were a pair of entrance sculptures, drinking fountains, and Swan Fountain as designed by the authors’ collective of sculptor Rastislav Miklánek and architect Pavel Mikšík. 

The garden restoration project was developed by the architect Alfonz Torma and the sculptor Tibor Schotter. Today, the artworks form part of the modern sculptural setting of the Medical Garden, a space first developed during the 1870s as a Baroque garden of the palace of Prince Aspremont. 

The drinking fountain installed in front of the northeast fence in the southern section of the garden originally comprised a single vertically mounted stone cylinder with a recessed upper surface that served for collecting water. At its centre is a circular opening with a drinking nozzle from which water flows into a vertical groove carved into the outside of the cylinder.  

The currently inoperative fountain stands beside a concrete fence, having been supplanted by a new standardised metal fountain that complies with relevant guidelines but no longer constitutes an original work of art. 

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Research status as of 15.11. 2023.