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Cupid with duck and cluster of grapes
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Cupid with duck and cluster of grapes

Bronze, 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Vettii
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. ex 705

A jet of water spurted from the duck's beak and fell into a basin placed on the northern side of the garden's peristyle.