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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Figure Group

ca. 1750-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Charles Gouyn's Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Figure group in white soft-paste porcelain of Hercules and Omphale, and Hercules is seated on a rock with drapery hanging loosely about him, while Omphale stands beside him girt with the lion's skin, and her right arm thrown round his neck and her left supporting his club.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Figure group
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain
Soft Paste Porcelain
Brief description
Figure group in white soft-paste porcelain of Hercules and Omphale, made by Charles Gouyn's factory, London, ca. 1750-1760.
Physical description
Figure group in white soft-paste porcelain of Hercules and Omphale, and Hercules is seated on a rock with drapery hanging loosely about him, while Omphale stands beside him girt with the lion's skin, and her right arm thrown round his neck and her left supporting his club.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.3cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Copied with slight modifications from an engraving by Laurent Cars after a picture painted in 1724 by François Lemoyne, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from a sale at Christie's for £3 3 shillings in January 1870
Acquired as Chelsea porcelain.
Subjects depicted
Hercules
Omphale
Bibliographic references
  • Lane, Arthur, and R. J. Charleston. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle. 1962, vol. 5, part 3.
  • See Object Information file in Ceramics and Glass Section offices.
Other number
Sch. I 120 - Schreiber number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
414:139-1885

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Record createdDecember 12, 2008
Record URL
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