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Panel with 16 majolica tiles 15x15 cms [6x6 inches]
with the printer's device of Venice-based printer Pietro Ravani [1516-1531]
featuring a crowned mermaid with two tails.
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Width | 23.62 in | 60 cm |
Length | 23.62 in | 60 cm |
Thickness | 0.59 in | 1,5 cm |
Weight | 44.09 lbs | 20 Kg |
Side * Side | 23.62 in X 23.62 in | 60x60 cm |
Manufacturing | Recuperando | |
Material | Majolica |
Two-tailes Mermaid or twin tailed siren; this creature is associated with numerous stories and legends, and is imbued with symbolic meaning in alchemy. Depicted with either one or two tails, it is the latter creature, the so-called Sirena bicaudata, that conforms to the birth-giving Mother Earth template. The connection to pregnancy is underlined by the bulging female abdomen that often features in the representations. The two tails, which are usually shown folded back towards the mermaid’s head, are transformations of the legs of the earth goddess which are spread either in coitus or in childbirth. The same dual-nature symbolism is also at work in alchemy, which employs the siren as a more benevolent emblem of enlightenment: the siren of the philosophers. Alchemically, the siren’s two tails represent unity, of earth and water, body and soul, and the vision of Universal Mercury, the all-pervading anima mundi that calls out and makes the philosopher yearn to her.
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