Coffee cup, c.1740, decorated en grisaille after an engraving taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of Vertumnus, disguised as an old woman, approaching the wood-nymph Pomona in order to woo her; a cupid at her feet; a popular theme in Dutch 17th century painting. Vertumnus and Pomona were the gods of gardens, orchards and ripening fruit. A plate in the British Museum (Hervouet p.309).
Reference : Hervouët, François et Nicole and Bruneau, Yves; La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p.309
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