IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140150 accession number: C.184-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 June 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in blue, pale greyish-green, green, flesh pink, dark pink, red, brown, and black enamels, silvered (now appearing as black), and gilded. The oval base is recessed underneath and has four suport struts projecting from the outer edge towards the middle at irregular intervals. The outer edge is moulded with waves coloured greyish-green surrounding the white clinker-built boat. A boatman kneels holding the rudder with his back to the viewer on the left end of the boat. He is nude apart from a white drape decorated with scattered green floral sprays. Paris stands with legs astride, holding up Helen in both arms. He wears a silver helmet and cuirass, and over his right shoulder a white cloak with scattered blue floral sprays which extends down to the top of the boat. His sandals are gold. Helen is nude except for a white drape decorated with scattered red floral sprays. object type: Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, silvered, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140150 PEOPLE ------------------- Helen Paris SUBJECTS ------------------- boat abduction The Rape of Helen boat abduction The Rape of Helen TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain. mouled in parts, assembled, glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, pale greyish- green, green, flesh pink, dark pink, red, brown, and black enamels, silvered (now appearing as black), and gilded. The oval base is recessed underneath and has four suport struts projecting from the outer edge towards the middle at irregular intervals. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Frankenthal Porcelain Factory maker: Lanz, Johann Wilhelm DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 22 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Frankenthaler Porzellan German Porcelain of the 18th Century French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue La sculpture francaise des XVII-XX siecles au Musee de l'Ermitage Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du dix-huitième siècle Frankenthaler Porzellan, Band I: Die Plastik The Summer Country House Sale, 27 June 2017 ---