Current Location: Gallery 7 (Courtauld)
Titles
Ewer emblematic of Wine
Maker(s)
Founder:
Unknown
(Probably)
Michel, Sigisbert-François
(After)
Entities
Categories
Description
Bronze, cast, chased, and patinated. Ewer of antique form, standing on a square base. A satyr sits on the shoulder, and the body is decorated with a goat mask, and swags of fruiting vine.
Notes
History note: Formerly at Dorchester House
Legal notes
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 45 cm
Length: 23.6 cm
Width: 17.7 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1941-02-13)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
19th Century, first half#
Circa
1800
CE
-
1850
CE
Note
Accessioned as English, but probably French. Probably derived from a model by Sigisbert-François Michel (1728-1811) exhibited in the Salon of the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris in 1774. Designs for similar ewers were supplied to Josiah Wedgwood by John Flaxman senior in 1775 and were made in black basalt and jasperware in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
School or Style
Neoclassical
Components of the work
Base
Depth 13 cm
Width 13 cm
Decoration
Surface
Materials used in production
Bronze
Patina
Techniques used in production
Casting (process)
: Bronze, cast, chased, and patinated
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.3-1941
Primary reference Number: 12373
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 3 July 2023
Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
