Terracotta Fruit Bowl Of Abundance, Baroque Style, Italian Work, Ca 1900

Fruit bowl of abundance made of terracotta, Italian work around 1900. This centerpiece represents a dish on a foot overflowing with fruits including lemons, oranges, grapes, apples, pomegranates... Good general condition, note some small chips at the level of some leaves of the fruits (very insignificant). The bowl of abundance, related to the mythological cornucopia, is synonymous with an inexhaustible source of benefits, generosity but also prudence. The cornucopia (cornucopia in Latin) is a mythological object in the shape of a ruminant's horn or a triton's shell used by Pluto, the Roman god of wealth and abundance. It is most often represented overflowing with fruits, but also with milk, honey and other sweet and sugary foods. According to the most popular tradition, the cornucopia adorned the forehead of the goat Amalthea, who fed Zeus in her childhood.