Figure group, Hercules and Iote
Details
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Title
Figure group, Hercules and Iote
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Artist/maker
after Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652 - 1725) (sculptor) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
late 18th century -
Material and technique
earthenware, cream-glazed
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Object type
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Dimensions
31.2 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the J. Reginald Jones Bequest Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1989.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1989.39
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 375-376 no. 196
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