Thread: 'Пилат видел, как вздувалась над трубочкой водяная тарелка' meaning?

I think it was written about tulip fountain:





It really forms something like bowl or dish, if you like.
Simple vertical pipe cannot make something similar. Ball of water drops only.

Now that makes sense, thanks both.
I thought I was having a grammar failure, it seems it was an imagination failure...
Tulip fountain sounds like the kind of thing, thanks for the pictures too. I got fixated on the idea that the 'тарелка' was the bowl underneath the spout.
это всё ясно.