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Description: | Transfer printed and brilliantly painted in colour enamels on white enamel showing Mars and Venus. Cupid in the foreground with a greyhound, the whole enclosed in rococo swags in purple with garlands of pink and yellow flowers. Mars, the son of Jupiter and Juno, was god of war. He loved Venus and Cupid was said to be their son. The sides and base have sprays of well painted flowers.
Round bonbonniere, transfer printed and brilliantly painted showing Mars and Venus. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Manufacturing industry Flowers Decorative arts Metalworking industries Health Confectionery Enamels Georgian period | Temporal: | 1750 - 1770
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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