{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O123162"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O123162/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BJ1642/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BJ1642/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006BJ1642","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2017KJ4582","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O123162/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O123162","accessionNumber":"2542-1856","objectType":"Plate","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"For murdering his friend Iphitus in a fit of madness Hercules was sold as a slave to Omphale, queen of Lydia, for three years. While in her service he grew effeminate, wearing women's clothes and adornments, and spinning yarn. In Renaissance art the scene illustrates the idea of woman's domination of man. The tag <i>Omnia vincit Amor</i> , love conquers all (Virgil, Eclogues 10, 69) here refers to the way Cupid subjugated Hercules to Omphale.","physicalDescription":"Plate with painted decoration, depicting Hercules and Omphale. Broken and restored.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Xanto","id":"A6744"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28690"},"note":"possibly"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"earthenware","id":"x29356"},{"text":"tin glaze","id":"AAT233436"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Tin-glazed earthenware","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006BJ1642","2017KJ4582"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"145 (VA)","id":"THES49865"},"free":"","case":"27","shelf":"2","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Plate","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Italy","id":"x28927"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1522","earliest":"1522-01-01","latest":"1522-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"dated"}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"29.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Omnia vincit amor 1522 on a tablet on front of dish","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Love conquers everything","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Purchased at Arondel, 26 rue Bonaparte, Paris","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bowl with broad border, Hercules and Omphale, attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli, probably at Urbino, dated 1522","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Mallet, J.V.G. et al, <i>Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance</i>, London : The Wallace Collection, 2007","id":"AUTH354537"},"details":"no. 1","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"T. Wilson, , Ceramic Art of the Renaissance, , London (British Museum) 1987, cat. 67, p. 53"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"J.V.G. Mallet, ‘Xanto and Gubbio: new thoughts and queries, Keramos, vo.186 (October 2004)\r\nIn this publication, Mallet refers to the imagery as Hercules and Deianira."}],"production":"Attributed to F.R. alias the young Francesco Xanto Avelli, see Mallet 2007","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["2542-1856"],"accessionNumberNum":"2542","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1856,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Rackham (1977)","id":"THES56972"},"number":"793"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP1882","2019LT3458","2019LT1300","2019LU9246"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2006-04-20","availableToBook":false}}