{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O72867"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72867/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AM7046/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AM7046/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AM7046","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O72867/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O72867","accessionNumber":"39-1865","objectType":"Bust","titles":[{"title":"Clytie","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"This bust is a bronze version of the marble <i>Clytie</i> in the British Museum, London. The marble bust was previously owned by a well-known English collector, Charles Townley. Various reproductions of <i>Clytie</i> were made in the 19th century in marble, plaster and Parian ware (a white porcelain that resembles statuary marble). This one by Nichols was a prize object in the Society of Arts Exhibition held in 1864.\n\nClythie originates from the Greek myth 'Sunflower' that tells how Clythie, who was the daughter of a king of Babylon, was refused the love of the sun-god Apollo, who fell in love with her sister Leucothea. Clythie became so jealous that her sister then died. Clythie - still rejected by Apollo - more and more turned into the flower that always turns its face towards the sun and in hopeless love follows his daily journey through the heavens.","physicalDescription":"Bronze bust of Clytie. Signed.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Nichols, T.","id":"A7265"},"association":{"text":"sculptor","id":"AAT25181"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"bronze","id":"AAT10957"}],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Bronze","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Myths & Legends","id":"THES49005"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2006AM7046"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES396151"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bust","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1864","earliest":"1864-01-01","latest":"1864-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"34","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'T, N'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"on the back of the base"}],"objectHistory":"Purchased from Mr T. Nichols, presumed to be the sculptor, in 1865 for £15.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bust, bronze, of Clytie, after the Roman original, by T. Nichols, England, 1864","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bilbey, Diane with Trusted, Marjorie, <u>British Sculpture 1470 to 2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>, London, 2002, pp. 344-5, cat. no. 519"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects acquired in the Year 1865. <font -u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol. 1.</font> London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 9"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Graham, Clare. <u>A Noble Kind of Practice: the Society of Arts Art-Workmanship Competitions, 1863-71</u> in <font -u>Burlington Magazine</font>. June 1993. vol. CXXXV, no. 1083, pp. 411-415"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Clythie","id":"AUTH321688"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"bust","id":"AAT47457"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["39-1865"],"accessionNumberNum":"39","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1865,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2017JT1561"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-13","recordCreationDate":"2003-01-13","availableToBook":true}}