Bacchus

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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Gotha Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Thuringia (made)

Figure of Bacchus, of biscuit porcelain, very slightly glazed. Standing figure wearing a lion-skin thrown over the shoulders, buskins and a wreath and girdle of vine, with grapes and foliage. The right hand is raised, and holds a bunch of grapes; a cup is missing from the left hand. The figure is supported by a tree-stump on a circular base.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain Figures & Decorative Ceramics
Object type	Statuette
Title	Bacchus
Materials and techniques	Hard-paste porcelain (biscuit) Biscuit
Brief description	Figure of Bacchus, probably modelled by Doell, hard-paste porcelain (biscuit); Germany, Thuringia, Gotha, ca. 1781-1800.
Physical description	Figure of Bacchus, of biscuit porcelain, very slightly glazed. Standing figure wearing a lion-skin thrown over the shoulders, buskins and a wreath and girdle of vine, with grapes and foliage. The right hand is raised, and holds a bunch of grapes; a cup is missing from the left hand. The figure is supported by a tree-stump on a circular base.
Dimensions	Height: 30.2cm
Credit line	Given by R. A. P. Davision, Esq.
Production	Probably modelled by Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Doell (1750-1816), court sculptor to Duke Ernst II von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, a pupil of J.A. Houdon, Paris.
Subject depicted	Bacchus
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	717-1908

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O307120/bacchus-statuette-gotha-porcelain-factory/

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