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

Statuette

1780-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of Omphale holding the club of Hercules, porcelain painted in enamel colours. She is standing, her right arm (in which she holds the club) resting upon a tree-stump. She wears a white robe diapered with flowers, over a long garment striped and dotted in crimson and red, and a pink cloak, fastened at her right shoulder and upheld in her left hand. Square marbled base.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure of Omphale holding the club of Hercules, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, Kloster-Veilsdorf porcelain factory, Germany (Thuringia), 1780-1800
Physical description
Figure of Omphale holding the club of Hercules, porcelain painted in enamel colours. She is standing, her right arm (in which she holds the club) resting upon a tree-stump. She wears a white robe diapered with flowers, over a long garment striped and dotted in crimson and red, and a pink cloak, fastened at her right shoulder and upheld in her left hand. Square marbled base.
Dimensions
  • Height: 31.8cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by William Melven, Esq.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.404-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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