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English: Cupids triumphal procession completely fills the bowl of this quartrefoil basin. In his horse-drawn triumphal chariot, Cupid carries Jupiter as the most distinguished of his twelve prisoners. Ceasar leads the "nine perfect heroes on foot, with the crouching Hercules bringing up the rear of the bound companions. Cupids retinue reaches into the distance as far as the eye can see. Putti seated at the spandrels of the rim personify the four continents, as can be seen from their emblems. Relief medaillons on the rim - one each of gold, silver, bronze and iron - represent the four world empires (Babylon-Assyria, Persia, the Empire of Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire) in the shape of visionary symbolic animals. Delicately chiselled engravings of four mythological scenes from Ovids Metamorphoses (Apollo and Daphnis; Pluto and Proserpine; Hippomenes and Atalanta; uncertain scene) appear on the smooth rim of the basin. The main theme, the triumph of Cupid, refers to the first of the six trionfi of Petrarch, while the last five are represented in relief on the ewer. Jamnitzer was not only inspired by the text but also by illustrations of the trionfi but without exactly copying a single one. Whether the enlargement of the theme should be ascribed to an ideographer from the Prague circle around Emperor Rudolph II who commissioned the set, or whether the artist himself was responsible for it, is a moot point.