IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 29419 accession number: M.8-1981 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 11 November 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Plaster cast probably taken of a box lid or plaque. Oval. In the middle an oval cartouche flanked by figures. On the right, a standing figure of Hercules; on the left a seated figure of Justice with Minerva? standing behind her, looking upwards to a seated putto blowing a trumpet, representing Fame, flanked by a lyre, a palette, brushes, and a globe, enclosed by three scrolls. Below the cartouche there is a military trophy, flanked by foliage. title: watch LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Jones Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29419 PEOPLE ------------------- Hercules Justice Fame Minerva soldier putto SUBJECTS ------------------- trophy trumpet lyre palette brushes Globe scrolls foliage trophy trumpet lyre palette brushes Globe scrolls foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- plaster, cast, with traces of gilding casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Heckel, Christopher DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 10.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 13.1 CITATIONS -------- The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century London ---