IDENTIFIERS
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id:	41788
accession number:	C.30-1932

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 31 March 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Bacchus representing Autumn, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, two shades of green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, purple and pale brown enamels and gilt. The unglazed underside has a central circular ventilation hole. The high scrolled base has a square aperture in the back to take an attachment and a circular hole in the front, and is decorated on the top with applied flowers and leaves. Bacchus stands with his right leg forward, and rests his right elbow on top of a ewer filled with grapes. He holds a cup in his right hand and a bunch of grapes in his left, which is held up in front of his chest. He wears a vine wreath on his head, and a yellow drape lined with a blue and puce floral pattern, and edged with gold. A rabbit is suspended from a belt crossing his torso diagonally. The ewer is decorated with puce scrolls and rocaille ornament picked out in gold, surrounding a spray of polychrome flowers. The base is picked out in puce, bluish-green, and gold, and the flowers are yellow and pink.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Bacchus representing Autumn, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in polycrhomevenamels and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41788

PEOPLE
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Bacchus

SUBJECTS
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autumn
cup
grapes
flowers
autumn
cup
grapes
flowers



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in polychrome enamels and gilt
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, second half#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
maker: Meyer, Friedrich Elias I

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 25.6



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Tempus, The Art of Time
CITATIONS
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Musée Cognacq-Jay, II, Porcelaines
Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
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