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Bacchus
Factory: Wood, Enoch
Pale cream earthenware covered with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue
Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue. The figure is supported on a shallow straight-sided square base with a low treestump at the back. The underside has a deep concave centre with a ventilation hole below the figure. Bacchus stands with his left leg forward and right relaxed behind him; his head and both arms are missing, the right from the shoulder, and the left from below the elbow. He wears a long tunic which is split to reveal the lower part of his left leg, and has a drape falling from the right shoulder at the back and draped across his body at the front.
History note: Found with other figures and fragments beneath the pavement on the south side of Burslem old Town Hall (oposite the Leopard Inn) during Mr Bemrose's excavation in April 1938; exchanged with other fragments for a copy of Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935.
Given by Stoke-on-Trent Museum in exchange for a copy of the Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
1820s
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1830
CE
For the appearance of the head, see EC.35.7-1943 from the same excavation
Press-moulding
: Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue. The underside has a deep concave centre with a ventilation hole below the figure
Lead-glazing
Accession number: EC.35.6-1943
Primary reference Number: 76957
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bacchus" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76957 Accessed: 2024-12-26 09:59:31
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