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Vase
Jan van Logteren, 1737
The Amsterdam sculptor Van Logteren decorated this exceptionally rich garden vase with two stories about ill-fated romances from Antiquity. One side features Venus marrying the misshapen god Vulcan against her will, only then to commit adultery with Mars. On the other side, Apollo is courting the nymph Daphne, in vain; to escape her assailant, she was transformed into a laurel tree soon thereafter.
- Artwork typevase, sculpture
- Object numberBK-16443
- Dimensionswidth 43 cm x depth 43 cm (plinth), weight 415.5 kg (total), height 141 cm x width 81.5 cm x depth 63 cm, weight 138.4 kg
- Physical characteristicswhite Carrara marmer