IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48026 accession number: EC.22-1941 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 2 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure group of Hercules and Omphale. The figures are placed on a low, uneven square base, angled with one corner towards the viewer. Hercules is seated on a rock, his right leg forward with the foot on the front corner of the base, and his left leg back with the foot on the proper right corner of the base. His right arm rests across his thighs.Omphale stands on his left. Her right foot is crossed in front of her left, and she leans on his club, and bends towards him, her right arm round his neck and shoulders. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure group of Hercules and Omphale. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Bellamy Gardner; sold Sotheby's, 12 June 1941, Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner, p. 6, lot 10; given by the National Art Collections Fund as trustee of the R.S. Cochrane Fund. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the National Art Collections Fund as trustee of the R. S. Cochrane Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48026 PEOPLE ------------------- Hercules Omphale SUBJECTS ------------------- god goddess god goddess TECHNIQUES ---------- greyish-white soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and glazed moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1749 - 1759 creation date earliest: 1749 creation date latest: 1759 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: St James's Workshop maker: Gouyn, Charles DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures title: Following Hercules: The Story of Classical Art title: Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain CITATIONS -------- Girl in the Swing Porcelain and Chelsea European Porcelain of the 18th Century Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Chelsea Porcelain Influence of the Baroque on English Porcelain Following Hercules, The story ofclassical art The English Ceramic Circle, 1927-1948: English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres English Ceramics in French Archives, the writings of Jean Hellot, the adventures of Jacques Louis Brolliet, and the identification of the 'Girl-in-a-Swing' Factory Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire des fonds français graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, III --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_22_1941.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 516 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_EC_22_1941.jpg height: 736 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_22_1941.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 516 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_EC_22_1941.jpg height: 368 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/432/938/large_EC_22_1941_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/432/938/mid_EC_22_1941_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/EC.22-1941_200809_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/432/938/preview_EC_22_1941_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/432/938/EC_22_1941_200809_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4368 pixels width: 2912 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/49/190/large_EC_22_1941_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/49/190/mid_EC_22_1941_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/EC.22-1941_200809_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/49/190/preview_EC_22_1941_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels