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Print, ornament print (BM 1917,1208.616)

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Print, ornament print (BM 1917,1208.616)

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The Judgement of Paris and the Birth of Venus (also called The Triumph of Galatea), design for the water-jug and basin of Charles I made by Theodoor Rogiers in silver; the oval basin at left with Birth of Venus, the goddess naked on a shell-chariot at centre, surrounded by sea nymphs and tritons; the jug seen from the side at right with Judgement of Paris, Paris seated on a tree trunk with Mercury standing next to him and holding the golden apple; a frieze showing the entire scene of the Judgement of Paris below, with the three goddesses at left, a water god at far left and Jupiter at far right; after Peter Paul Rubens
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1630
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British Museum
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