Walking stump button with three medallions in which symbols of music, painting and sculpture, Louis Métayer, 1750 The cast, round button rests on a smooth tire with profiled top edge, with which he was attached to the rotting. He broadens to the vaulted top and has been burned slightly along the lower and upper edge. The wall is articulated by three twisted columns that spread on a leaf volume. A shell motif is shown in the midst of volutes under each column; There are small engraved fields of grille work between these motives. The columns wear arches built up from C-Voluten with a cabochon i
Walking stump button with three medallions in which symbols of music, painting and sculpture, Louis Métayer, 1750 The cast, round button rests on a smooth tire with profiled top edge, with which he was attached to the rotting. He broadens to the vaulted top and has been burned slightly along the lower and upper edge. The wall is articulated by three twisted columns that spread on a leaf volume. A shell motif is shown in the midst of volutes under each column; There are small engraved fields of grille work between these motives. The columns wear arches built up from C-Voluten with a cabochon in the middle; In between, they are each crowned by an ever-formed, asymetric vase with flour against a engraved stock of rosettes with rosettes, closed off at the top by a C-Volut. One of the vases is decorated with a leaf mask. The three fields between the columns show successively: two a whistle and a bagpipe playing boys in a landscape with a lute and a music magazine at the bottom of the arch -hung fetency of fruits; A boy who paints a flower arranged on a donkey while watching a companion under a festival of shells; And a boy who hills a bust, while his companion watches a vase, under a festival of flowers. The performances respectively symbolize the music, painting and sculpture. On the top two boys are shown in the clouds, one of which is performing a measurement on a natural globe with a passer, while the other regards the starry sky with a viewer. They symbolize geography and astronomy. Amsterdam gold (metal) 'Sculptura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ sculpture; 'Scoltura' (Ripa). 'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica'(Ripa). 'Pictura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ painting; 'Pittura' (Ripa). 'Geografia'. 'Astronomia', 'Cosmografia'; 'Cosmografia' (Ripa). cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
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