Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1760-1780 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:triton classical deity
Dimensions:Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Blue-and-white coffee cup with a scene from Roman mythology. It shows a bearded old man holding a trident, being carried across the sea by a team of dolphins. He is accompanied by water nymphs and mermen, one of whom plays a horn.
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![图片[1]-cup BM-1953-1015.1.a-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00284116_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-cup BM-1953-1015.1.a-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00358600_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The picture shows Neptune, the Roman god of the sea and its inhabitants. The scene may illustrate an episode told by Virgil in the Aeneid, book I, lines 124-143, where Neptune calms the waves with his trident after the chief goddess, Juno, had intervened in the Trojan war by unleashing a storm to combat the retreating Trojan army. The drawing from which this design derives is the left half of a composition from a copy book by the Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), which is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 28). The drawing was later engraved by Bloemaert’s son, Frederick (c. 1610-1669). Other pieces with the same decoration include a pattipan in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (Jorg, 1982, no. 50), and a plate in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 28); a straining saucer in the Mottahedehcollection comes from a similar service with additional flower sprays (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I, no. 336).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:triton classical deity
Dimensions:Height: 7 centimetres
Description:
Blue-and-white coffee cup with a scene from Roman mythology. It shows a bearded old man holding a trident, being carried across the sea by a team of dolphins. He is accompanied by water nymphs and mermen, one of whom plays a horn.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The picture shows Neptune, the Roman god of the sea and its inhabitants. The scene may illustrate an episode told by Virgil in the Aeneid, book I, lines 124-143, where Neptune calms the waves with his trident after the chief goddess, Juno, had intervened in the Trojan war by unleashing a storm to combat the retreating Trojan army. The drawing from which this design derives is the left half of a composition from a copy book by the Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), which is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 28). The drawing was later engraved by Bloemaert’s son, Frederick (c. 1610-1669). Other pieces with the same decoration include a pattipan in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (Jorg, 1982, no. 50), and a plate in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 28); a straining saucer in the Mottahedehcollection comes from a similar service with additional flower sprays (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I, no. 336).
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