“Jupiter and Thetis” legend refers to a scene from Homer’s Iliad. Thetis, a sea nymph and mother of the Greek hero Achilles, pleads with the god Jupiter (Zeus) to intervene in the Trojan War on behalf of her son.
Porcelain painter: Henri-Albert Adam (1766-1820), the Genevan miniaturist who collaborated with the Sèvres Imperial Manufactory at the beginning of the Empire in 1806 and 1807, before working for the Russian Court from 1808. Adam is listed in the factory’s registers as a figurist painter alongside Swebach, Leguay, Parant and Jacquotot during these two years; he was commissioned to decorate several shaped pieces (plates, serving cups) with mythological scenes, some in the cameo style, and in 1807 participated in the decoration for the Olympic service.