Shown is Erato, muse of the hymn, the song and the lyricism. The 9 muses in Greek mythology were goddesses of art and science and represented the inspiration.

The performance is double-sided and was once part of a richly executed staircase in an Amsterdam canal house. On a modern bluestone base.

Dim. oval H 65, Br 49 cm. Dutch classicism, ca 1720.