{"id":16754,"date":"2025-02-24T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:40:21","slug":"sevres-service-iconographique-09","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/sevres\/sevres-iconographique\/sevres-service-iconographique-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevres portrait plate &#8220;Omphale&#8221; from Service Iconographique Grec"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16754","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Sevres Service Iconographique 09\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg 802w, https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-768x767.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-600x600.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of 3 plates brought in 1814 to Berlin for the K\u00f6nigliche Porzellan Manufaktur (KPM), the emperor&#8217;s porcelain factory, so that Gottfried Wilhelm V\u00f6lcker, one of their portraitists, could copy the plates for KPM.<br \/>\nThe plates were used as examples for painters of the KPM. However, they were never returned, the reason for this is unknown.<br \/>\nOmphale was a queen of Lydia (modern Turkey) who famously had Heracles (Hercules) as a slave for a period of time. During this servitude, roles were often reversed, with Omphale wearing Heracles&#8217; lion skin and wielding his club, while Heracles dressed in women&#8217;s clothing and performed domestic tasks. This role reversal is a common theme in art depicting Omphale and Heracles, symbolizing the temporary suspension of traditional power dynamics. The cameos captures Omphale wearing the lion skin, a visual representation of her dominance over the hero.<br \/>\nAfter  finger-ring sardonyx cameo made by Johann Thomas Walther in late 18th century, currently in British Museum:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/H_1978-1002-1109\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/H_1978-1002-1109<\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Omphale<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Sevres Service Iconographique 09","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":802,"height":801,"file":"2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg","filesize":561927,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Sevres-service-iconographique-09-300x300.jpeg","width":300,"height":300,"filesize":22466,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-300x300.jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"Sevres-service-iconographique-09-768x767.jpeg","width":768,"height":767,"filesize":99426,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-768x767.jpeg"},"store-sq-thumb":{"file":"Sevres-service-iconographique-09-600x600.jpeg","width":600,"height":600,"filesize":66972,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-600x600.jpeg"},"store-thumb":{"file":"Sevres-service-iconographique-09-540x450.jpeg","width":540,"height":450,"filesize":51042,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-540x450.jpeg"},"pop-thumb":{"file":"Sevres-service-iconographique-09-542x340.jpeg","width":542,"height":340,"filesize":40757,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09-542x340.jpeg"},"full":{"file":"Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg","width":802,"height":801,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":16744,"source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sevres-service-iconographique-09.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16754"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"page","id":16744,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}