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Bacchus representing Autumn from a Set of Seasons
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Bacchus, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and very slightly blue-tinted lead glaze, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Bacchus, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, and very slightly blue-tinted lead glaze. Painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, pink, orange, red, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed including most of the feet, and has a ventilation hole near the back. The rounded square base has five scroll feet with a pierced rocaille motif between the front two. On the viewer's left there is a large bulbous ewer with a pink rocaille motif and lower border on the back, sprays of fruiting vine on the front, and grapes and leaves filling the mouth.
Bacchus stands on his left leg with his right foot in front resting on a scroll projecting from the base. He leans back on the ewer on his right arm, and holds a white, pink and gold goblet in his right hand. In his left hand he holds up a bunch of grapes over the goblet. He has a wreath of vine over his brown hair, and wears a long pink drape with a blue and puce floral patterned lining, and gold edging, which passes over his right shoulder and down to the ground at the back. A rabbit is slung on his left side by an underglaze blue and gold strap. The base is picked out in underglaze blue, puce, turquoise, and gold.
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas
Height: 26.7 cm
Width: 13.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1774
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue turquoise, green, yellow, orange, flesh-orange, pink, and brown)
lead-glaze
( presume lead)
gold
Details
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and very slightly blue-tinted lead glaze, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: rectangular with printed red double line border, printed inside
Accession number: EC.7-1938
Primary reference Number: 41991
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bacchus representing Autumn from a Set of Seasons" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/41991 Accessed: 2024-11-08 08:56:09
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