Five scenes from Classical mythology, Five glasses with scenes from classical mythology in a wooden setting. On the glass on the far left: a running man and woman, both with a raised hand with a stone in it. On the stones in the background a human face and a human torso. A third stone is flying through the sky in the background. Deucalion and Pyrrha are probably depicted here. They throw stones over their shoulders, from which new people grow. (Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I 313-415). The glass to the right of it: Jason, with a spear in classical armor, fights the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece. The golden fleece itself hangs in the tree that the dragon has wrapped around. The middle glass: Jason and the fire-breathing bulls. Jason, on the left, protects herself against the fire from the nostrils of the two bulls with a bunch of herbs. The glass to the right of it: Athena turns Arachne into a spider. On the left a loom, on the right the goddess pointing to the spider in a web above the spinning wheel. The glass on the far right: two women sitting on a rock. In the foreground a bow, a quiver and a winch, fight with the dragon, Jason sprinkles a drug in her eyes, possibly assisted by Medea, Jason hitches the fire-breathing bulls to the plow, Arachne changed into a spider: when hanging herself after having been defeated in a weaving contest with Minerva, Arachne has changed into a spider by the goddess (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 135), anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1700 - c. 1790, oak (wood), glass, w 45.5 cm × l 9 cm × t 0.8 cm
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