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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 363017, member: 5833&quot;]Quite correct.&nbsp; Aged male figures pouring water from a wide mouthed jar are allegorical figures for rivers, such as <a href="http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/object/65572/The-River-God-Tiber-with-the-Urn-and-the-Vestal-Tuccia/Theodoor-Galle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/object/65572/The-River-God-Tiber-with-the-Urn-and-the-Vestal-Tuccia/Theodoor-Galle" rel="nofollow">the Tiber</a>.&nbsp; Female figures, usually with more delicate jars, represent springs or smaller water courses.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see the finger as over the lips in a shushing motion; more raised in an admonitory way.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have made myself dizzy looking back &amp; forth between them.&nbsp; They seem to derive from the same basic image, but are not the same, are they?</p><p><br /></p><p>I see one figure as female, the other male.&nbsp; In this one it is the male tipping the jar &amp; the female with the cautionary finger.&nbsp; On the eBay one the roles are reversed?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I do not see this feature (wing?) on the eBay one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]124125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Differences in the hair are the easiest for me to compare.&nbsp; This is the eBay figure I see as female:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]124126[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From this angle she looks like an adult woman, wearing her hair in a way that is characteristic of Venus.&nbsp; Gauntlet&#039;s figures are both immature looking, putti.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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