Size: 22″ x 14″
Medium: Cinca and vitreous glass, silver leaf, venetian millefiore, limoge china, gold plain and ripple, venetian smalti and mirror.
Date: 2004
Artist: Colette O’Brien

The goddess of love was the daughter of Zeus according to one source, though an older myth suggests that she sprung from the sea. Her name, “Foam-born”, bears our such an origin. She was endowed with all the charms of feminine grace and beauty.