Antique Rare Qianlong Period Chinese Porcelain Cup Dish Neptune, the Roman god of the sea
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Condition Report: Overall Condition Saucer 1 chip to rim with line and crackle lines in base. Cup perfect. Size: 113x22mm and 79x42mm diameterxheight
Blue and white soft paste cup and saucer dish 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.
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 Mottahedeh
collection comes from a similar service with additional flower sprays (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I, no. 336).
Similar piece displayed in the British Museum:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1953-1015-1-a
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