Dish with the Castration of Uranus
Also titled Schotel met de ontmanning van Uranus door Kronos
c. 1680 - c. 1685
- Medium
- earthenware, tin glaze, faience
- Classification
- platter
- Dimensions
- height 5 cm x diameter 38.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Around 1680 the Moriaanshooft pottery factory in Delft succeeded in producing painted decorations in a variety of colours, as can be seen in the edge of this dish. Such objects with ornamented edges and Classical scenes were very much in vogue among the European elite. This dish bears the arms of the Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, and may have been a wedding gift.
