Bacchus and two Bacchantes

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)

Flaxman, John (1755-1826)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
ca. 1789
Height:
17.0 cm  (6 11/16 in.)
Width:
22.4 cm  (8 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
jasperware pottery

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood[Museum inv. no.: 1912.1171]

Description

Women playing a tambourine and a lyre.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]
Tambourine [2746]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 6 (105da82). RILM 1988-275.

Notes

According to Owens, the designer of this plaque was John Flaxman (English sculptor, draftsman, and designer, 1755-1826).

RIdIM record id

1998