This #18CE wine cooler shows Pluto abducting Proserpine from #RomanMyth. Her mother Ceres goddess of agriculture is so distraught that the world grows cold until they agree that Proserpine will spend half the year above ground and half below, creating the seasons. This story features in Ovid’s Metamorphoses & the image here is very similar to an engraving in a #1770s edition.
In Collection: The Fletcher Gallery
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