IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41991 accession number: EC.7-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Bacchus, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, and very slightly blue-tinted lead glaze. Painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, pink, orange, red, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed including most of the feet, and has a ventilation hole near the back. The rounded square base has five scroll feet with a pierced rocaille motif between the front two. On the viewer's left there is a large bulbous ewer with a pink rocaille motif and lower border on the back, sprays of fruiting vine on the front, and grapes and leaves filling the mouth. Bacchus stands on his left leg with his right foot in front resting on a scroll projecting from the base. He leans back on the ewer on his right arm, and holds a white, pink and gold goblet in his right hand. In his left hand he holds up a bunch of grapes over the goblet. He has a wreath of vine over his brown hair, and wears a long pink drape with a blue and puce floral patterned lining, and gold edging, which passes over his right shoulder and down to the ground at the back. A rabbit is slung on his left side by an underglaze blue and gold strap. The base is picked out in underglaze blue, puce, turquoise, and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Bacchus, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and very slightly blue-tinted lead glaze, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41991 PEOPLE ------------------- Bacchus SUBJECTS ------------------- autumn vine autumn vine TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and very slightly blue-tinted lead glaze, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1774 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1774 culture: 18th Century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.0 CITATIONS -------- Bacchus in Cambridge: Models and Copies Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_ec_7_1938_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_ec_7_1938_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_ec_7_1938_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_ec_7_1938_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_ec_7_1938_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_ec_7_1938_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_ec_7_1938_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/ec_7_1938_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_ec_7_1938_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_7_1938_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_7_1938_285_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_7_1938_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_7_1938_285_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels