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Bacchus and Ariadne
Maker: Unknown
Maiolica panel, painted in polychrome with Bacchus and Ariadne.
Dark buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front; traces of glaze on the back. Painted in shades of blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple. Rectangular.
Bacchus and Ariadne. Ariadne reclines in the foreground looking towards a female attendant who approaches from the right holding an infant in her arms. Bacchus sits further back drinking from a cup held by a baby satyr. Behind them are a monument and a tree over which a flying putto is hoisting up a blue drape, assisted by another who stands behind Ariadne. In the lower right corner is a basket of flowers, and a tiny fox on which is an `A'.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (MS Cat. 1580).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 1.5 cm
Height: 27.3 cm
Width: 20.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
19th Century
Circa
1750
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( shades of blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2237-1928
Primary reference Number: 80768
Old object number: 1580
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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