""Pilgrim Flask"" with Mercury and Psyche
The decoration of this vessel, shaped like the flasks carried by travelers or pilgrims, is centered on the god Mercury carrying the beautiful young mortal woman Psyche to Mt. Olympus, home of the immortal gods, for her marriage with Cupid, god of love. The motif is adapted fro...
Images (7)
Artifact
| id |
id
37839
|
|---|---|
| contentType |
contentType
object
|
| stage |
stage
normalized
|
| provenance |
provenance
Spain [date and mode of deposition unknown]; Samuel Addington, prior to 1862, by purchase; Boulton, [no. 92]; George Robinson Harding, London [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
|
| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
|
| language |
language
en
|
| pageCount |
pageCount
7
|
| source |
source
import
|
Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1373_Fnt_SL_T84.jpg |
|---|---|
| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1373_Fnt_SL_T84.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1373_Fnt_SL_T84.jpg |
| imageCount | 7 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1373 |
Terms
Relations
createdBy
inCollection