This pair of cameo reliefs depict in miniature the celebrated over life-size Roman statues of the Farnese Hercules [Herakles], on the left, and the Farnese Fora, on the right. Hercules is shown leaning on his club which is draped in the skin of the Nemean lion, slain by him. Flora, the Roman Goddess of the Spring and flowers holds up the hem of her dress with her right hand whilst in her left she holds a wreath of flowers in the crook of her arm.

The pair is today framed with another pair, SM S65, depicting the Greek Goddess Omphale and a Piping Faun. The other two are each within inner frames which this pair do not have. It appears that the four have been reframed together since Soane's death. In his time they were framed as two pairs, with a fifth Tassie medallion of a Sacrifice (now lost) between them (SM S66).

All are said in the early Soane inventories to be the work of James Tassie, who worked with Wedgwood and the 1837 AB inventory entry records the material as 'Tassie's composition'. The figures are in white on purple jasperware plaques. This is an extremely unusual colour and the plaques are much longer ovals than the few examples of the finished products which are almost circular and in which the figures are mounted on blue jasperware. None of the surviving examples manufactured by Wedgwood in other museums identified so far is specifically associated with James Tassie. It is possible that these four are unique trial pieces and that the Soane records confirm their designer.

There is an oval blue jasperware plaque with the identical Flora figure in 'applied white relief' in the V&A (accession number C.239-1983) made at the Wedgwood Factory, Staffordshire, c.1769-80. No association with Tassie is noted in their entry. The same is true of an example in stoneware ('white waxen biscuit'), moulded in relief with this figure and mounted in a a beaded metal frame, in the British Museum which is catalogued as Wedgwood and Bentley c.1773 (BM 1909,1201.226).

S65, framed together