Current Location: In storage
Titles
Bacchus
Maker(s)
Production:
The Claw Factory
Proprietor of factory:
Lockhorst, Johannes
Proprietor of factory:
Gucht, Margaretha van der
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware figure of Bacchus in 18th century dress, seated astride a barrel, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow, green, and brownish-orange
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, dark green, bright yellow, and brownish-orange. The base is open underneath so that the glazed interior of the figure is visible. Bacchus is represented as a man in eighteenth-century costume, seated astride a barrel on a low four-footed stand, and holding in his right hand a cup, and in his left a globular bottle. He wears a cap formed by vine leaves and bunches of grapes, a bright yellow coat with brownish-orange cuffs and button holes, and decoration on the back and fronts of vine leaves and bunches of grapes. He has brownish-orange breeches, white stockings, and dark blue shoes. The sides of the barrel are partly striped in blue, and there is a wide green stripe across the top and the bottom. On the front, above this, is the word 'bachùs' with below it a painted tap and glass. On the back of the barrel top is the word, 'nantis'.
Notes
History note: Mr S. E. Mossel at Amsterdam, 86, Zwanenburgwal, from whom purchased for £12.10.0 in August 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
The Claw Factory in Delft operated between 1661 and 1840.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: I has dot over forms upstroke of the L with a slanting stroke between to form the V
- Text: IVL/1
- Location: On inside of side of base
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
- Type: Factory mark
Inscription present: part of a rectangular white paper stick-on label with a blue border
- Text: Bacchus/Dutch coloured/delft/Bought from/Mr Mosel at/Amsterdam/August 1902
- Location: Applied to the inside of the back of the barrel
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2763-1928
Primary reference Number: 74038
Old object number: 1301
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 4 August 2025
Last processed: Monday 4 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
