Large Renaissance-style enameled bowl: The Childhood of Zeus

Limoges Enamel Bowl: The Childhood of Zeus
Beautiful 19th-century Limoges enamel bowl in the Renaissance style.
The bowl is painted in grisaille with a depiction of the childhood of Zeus, nursed on the milk of the goat Amalthea and accompanied by the nymphs Ida and Adrasteia.
The scene is superbly painted in shades of gray with some gold details.
The frieze around the bowl is finely worked with gilded motifs.
The foot is also finely painted with Renaissance-style decoration, the underside featuring grotesque heads, friezes, and mascarons.
This bowl is in very good condition.
There are a few small cracks in the center and some minor old restorations, clearly visible in the photos as yellow instead of white.

Dimensions:
13.6 cm high and 19.8 cm in diameter

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Zeus's Childhood:

Zeus is the son of Rhea and Cronus, one of the Titans. Cronus devoured all his children as soon as they were born because his father (Uranus) had prophesied that one of his children would drive him from his throne (just as Cronus himself had dethroned him). Zeus's childhood on the island of Crete: When she had her sixth child, Rhea had had enough and wanted to save her newborn Zeus. She gave birth to him in secret. Instead of giving young Zeus to her husband, Rhea gave him a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes and hid her child on the island of Crete, where the nymphs Ida and Adrasteia cared for him. Zeus cried so loudly that the Curetes constantly made noise to hide his cries from his father. He grew up in a cradle suspended from a tree: thus, he was neither on land nor at sea. Nor in the air, so that his father would suspect nothing. He feeds on the milk of the goat Amalthea. One day, while playing with her, Zeus breaks one of her horns. To make amends, he promises her that food will spring from her horn without ceasing: this is the cornucopia. Atlas, one of the Titans, defeated by Zeus and his allies, had to carry the celestial vault on his shoulders eternally as punishment. As a teenager, he wants to take his father's throne. On Metisil's advice, he gives his father Cronus a magic potion to drink, which makes him vomit up the stone he had swallowed, as well as his brothers and sisters who were devoured before him: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. Then, the Cyclopes allied themselves with Zeus and gave him the Thunderbolt, which they forged. They gave Poseidon his trident and Hades the kuna (a helmet that renders the wearer invisible). The Hecatonchires, whom he frees after Cronus had imprisoned them in Tartarus, creatures with 50 fire-breathing heads and 100 arms, come to his aid. Cronus had imprisoned them in Tartarus, but Zeus frees them. He wages war against his father and the other Titans. This is the Titanomachy. After defeating them, he sends them all into exile in Tartarus, the prison for all criminals in the Underworld. To thank the Hecatonchires, Zeus appoints them guardians of the Underworld. But this victory is contested by the Giants. Gaia, to avenge the imprisonment of the Titans, his sons, in Tartarus, incites the giants to fight against the Olympian gods. He must fight against them. Typhon was a monstrous being, son of Gaia and Tartarus, whom Zeus must fight. He was imprisoned, mutilated, and had the tendons of his arms and legs removed by Typhon. Hermes and Aegipans, through trickery, stole the tendons, and Zeus was then freed and declared the victor. Following this, Zeus became the leader of a new generation of gods. He entrusted two kingdoms to his brothers: Poseidon would rule the seas and Hades the Underworld. Most of the new gods resided on Mount Olympus.

(cf. Wikipedia)

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