Five scenes from classical mythology, Five glasses with scenes from classical mythology in a wooden setting. The glass on the far left: Perseus, attacked by two men (probably Phineus and one of his men), shows them the head of Medusa. One of the two turns away. The glass to the right of it: Hercules, with club, fighting the multi-headed Hydra. The glass in the middle: two cattle, driven by a man in brown and blue clothes. On the ground in front of the cattle a naked man with no visible legs that extends his arms to the animals and to the man. The glass to the right of it: Medea makes Jason young again. Medea prepares a brew in a large kettle on a fire. To her right is an offering table surrounded by burning torches. Jason is in the foreground, naked and bearded. The glass on the far right: Thisbe finds the dead Pyramus, and pierces himself with his sword, (2) the Hydra of Lerna is killed by Hercules, Thisbe kills herself with Pyramus' sword (the scene may be represented near a fountain), anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1700 - c. 1790, oak (wood), glass, w 45.5 cm × l 9 cm × t 0.8 cm
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