The Bath of Diana
Germany, 1704
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
“The dish with the bath of Diana is embarking on a series of unique ceremonial vessels from the workshop Dinglinger. In this case, the goldsmith told the story of Diana and Actaeon from the “Metamorphoses” of the Roman poet Ovid. In a central position under a canopy dominated by the hunting goddess, ready to swim. Two dolphins spout water into the stone bowl, ready to lie on the edge of toilet utensils. Compared with the tender form, which is teased by a playful cherub, one of their dogs guarded their hunting equipment. The idyllic scenery of the cuppa is the tragic outcome of this episode on stem and foot are compared. Just at that moment, so it delivers Ovid, was roaming through the forests of the hunter Actaeon accidentally caught along and take a look at the chaste goddess. As a punishment that the unfortunates transformed into a stag, which was suddenly torn from his own hunting dogs. Dinglinger will play this scene in relentless realism. On the Schalenfuß, designed as a rampant forest soil is the head of the transformed Actaeon, the dogs attack the greedy. An inscription on the edge of the foot summarizes the moral message of the cup: “DISCRETION SERT EFFRONTERIE PERD” (tact and decency sheet, shamelessness loses).”
Details originally in German, blame Google Translate for their weirdness.
