IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76265
accession number:	C.873-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 10 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with green, brownish-yellow and brown-lead glazes. The figure stands on a low mound base decorated with a spray of fruiting vine and coloured green. It is open and unglazed underneath. Bacchus stands with his left foot on a low rock or log, holding a cup in his left hand and a bunch of grapes in his right, both close to his body. He has a wreath of brownish-yellow vine leaves and grapes around his head, and wears a brown tunic and a cloak which extends down to the base at the back. His legs and feet are bare.
object type: earthenware figure of Bacchus decorated with green, brownish-yellow, and brown lead-glazes
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr Jennings, Newmarket from whom bought on 13 February 1913 for 5s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76265

PEOPLE
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Bacchus

SUBJECTS
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vine sprays
grapes



TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: coloured glazed figures

DATING
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creation date:	1783 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1783
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Wood, Ralph, II
maker: Wood, Ralph, III

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 6.3



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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