A BERLIN (K.P.M.) RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'THE RAPE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF LEUCIPPUS'

IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE MARK, AND CYPHER K, INCISED 12" 9¾", SIGNED BY FRANZ SCHIER, MÜNCHEN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'THE RAPE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF LEUCIPPUS'
IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE MARK, AND CYPHER K, INCISED 12" 9¾", SIGNED BY FRANZ SCHIER, MÜNCHEN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Finely painted after P.P. Rubens with the twin warriors Castor and Pollux abducting Theocritus and Hyginus
12½ x 10¼ in. (31.8 x 26 cm.), within a carved giltwood frame

拍品專文

Castor and Pollux were the sons of Zeus through his union with Leda in the form of a swan. Prior to their abduction, Leucippus' daughters were betrothed to another set of twins, who were in turn Castor and Pollux cousins.

See anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1989, lots 31, 32 and 33 and the back cover for similar examples.