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Bacchus
Factory: Wood, Enoch
Pale cream earthenware with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue
Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue. The figure has lost its base, lower legs, and both arms, the right from the shoulder, and the left from above the elbow. Bacchus has his head turned to the viewer's left. He wears a long tunic with a drape falling from his left 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
Height: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
1820s
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1830
CE
A similar model to EC.6-1943 which has its base and lower legs and was found in the same excavation
pale cream
Earthenware
tinted slightly blue
Lead-glaze
Press-moulding
: Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: EC.35.7-1943
Primary reference Number: 76958
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/76958 Accessed: 2024-11-05 16:19:52
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