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Bacchus
Factory:
Wedgwood
Sculptor:
Sansovino, Jacopo (Jacopo d'Antonio Tatti)
(After)
Black basalt, moulded. Bacchus stands on an oval straight-sided base. His weight is on his right leg and his left is extended behind. To the viewers left is a tree stump on which he rests his right hand which holds bunches of grapes and a goatskin with the head at the bottom.
History note: Unknown before testator
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 27.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century, Late-19th Century#
George III
After
1780
CE
-
Before
1860
CE
After the marble made by Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570) for Giovanni Gaddi in 1511-12, and now in the Museo Nazionale, Florence, but without the faun seated behind Bacchus.
The London plaster makers Hoskins and Oliver, supplied Wedgwood with a Bacchus in 1770, but it is not clear whether it was for this figure or the Bacchus after Michelangelo. Both were listed in the Wedgwood & Bentley Catalogue published in 1773. See Documentation.
Slip-casting : Black basalt, moulded
Accession number: MAR.C.7-1912
Primary reference Number: 11166
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://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/11166 Accessed: 2024-12-22 17:14:40
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