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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Two Bacchantes adorning Pan

Figure Group
ca. 1770-1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure group of 'Two Bacchantes adorning Pan', of soft-paste porcelain. One of the Bacchantes on the left, stands in a graceful attitude with her right arm raised above her head and holding one end of a chain of flowers, and her right leg stretched behind her; she is clad in draperies purple and of white painted with flowers. The other on the right, is kneeling on her left knee with her left arm raised; she is clad like the other. They are binding with chains of flowers a terminal figure of Pan standing on a pedestal with a tree behind it. The whole is set on a thick irregular base strewn with leaves and flowers and also a jug, a tambourine and a thyrsus.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleTwo Bacchantes adorning Pan (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Figure group, Two Bacchantes adorning Pan, enamelled and gilt soft-paste porcelain, William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1770-1790
Physical description
Figure group of 'Two Bacchantes adorning Pan', of soft-paste porcelain. One of the Bacchantes on the left, stands in a graceful attitude with her right arm raised above her head and holding one end of a chain of flowers, and her right leg stretched behind her; she is clad in draperies purple and of white painted with flowers. The other on the right, is kneeling on her left knee with her left arm raised; she is clad like the other. They are binding with chains of flowers a terminal figure of Pan standing on a pedestal with a tree behind it. The whole is set on a thick irregular base strewn with leaves and flowers and also a jug, a tambourine and a thyrsus.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'N196' (Figure model number incised on base)
  • 'G' (Incised on base)
Credit line
Given by Miss R. Heriot in memory of Mr and Mrs Robert Heriot
Object history
Modelled by J.J. Spengler from an engraving (Olim truncus eram Ficulus inutile Lignum) by William Wynne Ryland, after a painting by Angelica Kauffmann.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. Old English Porcelain. London : Faber&Faber, 1948. 121 p.
Collection
Accession number
C.193-1926

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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