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18th century mythological Dutch Delft tile with decoration of Hersillia & Juno
About the Item
Rotterdam
C. 1740
Workshop of Hendrick Schut
A very fine painted tile with mythological decoration after Ovidius.
What is special is that this tile has a decoration from Roman mythology, which is not related to the Greek, like all the other stories stories. This and the other on my site are the only known ones depicted on tiles.
The Roman legend of Hersilia taken to heaven by Juno Ovid 14, 829-851;
”His wife, Hersilia, was mourning him as lost, when royal Juno ordered Iris to descend to her, by her rainbow path, and carry these commands, to the widowed queen: ‘O lady, glory of the Latin and Sabine peoples, worthy before to have been the wife of so great a hero, and now of Quirinus, dry your tears, and if it is your desire to see your husband, follow me and seek the grove, that flourishes on the Quirinal hill and shades the temple of Rome’s king.’
Iris obeyed, and gliding to earth along her many-coloured arch addressed Hersilia as she had been ordered. She, hardly raising her eyes, replied, modestly: ‘O goddess (since it is not easy for me to say who you are, but it is clear you are a goddess), lead on: O, lead on, and show me my husband’s face. If only the fates allow me to see him once, I shall declare I have been received in heaven.’
Without delay, she climbed to Romulus’s hill, with Iris, the virgin daughter of Thaumas. There a star fell, gliding from sky to earth, and Hersilia, hair set alight by its fire, vanishes with the star in the air. The founder of the Roman city receives her in his familiar embrace, and alters her former body and her name, and calls her Hora, who, a goddess now, is one with her Quirinus.”
Painted after engravings of Crispijn de Passe (1602).
- Dimensions:Height: 5.12 in (13 cm)Width: 5.12 in (13 cm)Depth: 0.32 in (8 mm)
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- Period:1740-1749
- Date of Manufacture:1740
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. The tile is in very good condition, with the normal superficial wear and small chips according to age.
- Seller Location:AMSTERDAM, NL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6389238842882
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