Two garden vases with the Four Seasons Garden vase decorated with Summer and Autumn Two garden vases with the four seasons, On one of the reliefs Ceres, which has a shovel in the right arm and a sickle in the left hand. She looks to the left for two children, of whom the front one, a girl, holds a branch with fruit in the raised hand and in the other a bird on a stick, which the boy grabs for. To the right of Ceres a kneeling girl with a pear in one hand and a rake in the other. The children wear a sash over the shoulder. Reverse: Bachus sits to the right and looks to the left for a boy who holds him a chalice and for whom he has put his right arm. With his left hand he takes a bunch of grapes from a basket, which is handed to him by a girl. She looks around for another boy, who wears a dead hare and bird on a stick over her shoulder. Behind him lies a hazy wind. Bacchus wears a wreath of vines on the head, the mantle covered lap and left arm the right boy has a sash, autumn, fall, 'Autumnus', 'Autunno' (Ripa), summer, 'Aestas', 'Estate' (Ripa), ornament, hybrid beings, human and animal forms mixed, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', Jacobus Cressant, Netherlands, 1714, marble (rock), h 145.0 cm × w 78.0 cm × d 78.0

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