IDENTIFIERS
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id:	169621
accession number:	C.4-1979

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: unknown before Countess Shelagh Rietberg


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Countess Shelagh Reitberg

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169621

PEOPLE
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Ganymede

SUBJECTS
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eagle
eagle



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste biscuit porcelain, moulded
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1873 - 1888
creation date earliest:	1873
creation date latest:	1888
culture:	19th Century, Late#

CREATORS
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maker: Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory
maker: Thorvaldsen, Bertel

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 10.8



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
CITATIONS
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Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
Thorvaldsen
Biscuit after Thorvaldsen
The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sculpture
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