IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169621 accession number: C.4-1979 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste biscuit porcelain, moulded. The rectangular base has straight sides and a flat top. Ganymede kneels on the right, holding a ewer in his right hand, and a bowl in his left hand, from which the eagle drinks. The eagle stands on the left of the base, with its tail feathers projecting over it. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Countess Shelagh Rietberg LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Countess Shelagh Reitberg STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169621 PEOPLE ------------------- Ganymede SUBJECTS ------------------- eagle eagle TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste biscuit porcelain, moulded moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1873 - 1888 creation date earliest: 1873 creation date latest: 1888 culture: 19th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory maker: Thorvaldsen, Bertel DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Thorvaldsen Biscuit after Thorvaldsen The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sculpture ---