![]() Behind him appears a row of sword-wielding men locked in combat, with several casualties lying at their feet. A man at the left with a green cuirass and cloth knotted about his waist and neck stands apart from the combatants and looks up toward the gesturing woman. ![]() Unable to decipher where the rock came from, the soldiers attacked one another, leaving Jason (in the left foreground) to easily defeat the exhausted survivors and obtain the Golden Fleece.Ī group of armed men struggles in a landscape while a helmeted female figure hovers on a cloud above them and points to a distant city that lies across an expanse of water. The title refers to the action that preceded the battle depicted, which arose when Jason threw a stone in the midst of the soldiers. The king of Colchis gives Jason a seemingly impossible three-part task: he must tame and plow a field with two fire-breathing oxen (depicted on the hill in the right background), plant the teeth of a fearsome dragon (also at right), and defeat the army of warriors that sprout from the dragon’s teeth. This dish is decorated with a scene from the Classical myth of Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) with underglaze paintingģ ⅛ in x 17 ⅜ in x 17 ⅜ in (7.94 cm x 44.13 cm x 44.13 cm) 3 ⅛ in x 17 ⅜ in x 17 ⅜ in (7.94 cm x 44.13 cm x 44.13 cm) ![]()
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