Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Meigh, Charles
Title:
Bacchanalian dance.
Published / Created:
Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1844.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded white stoneware, smear-glazed, metal ; height 22 cm (lid closed), width 17 cm (including handle), depth 11 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 22
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Marks applied and impressed on bottom: royal coat-of-arms with registration diamond, "Sept. 30, 1844, Registd. No. 21960, Charles Meigh" (parcel 7). Also impressed: '24'.

Title from Hughes.

Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 48

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, page 110

The jug is decorated with figures of reveling bacchanals, with a loop handle in the form of a vine stem. The decorations are based on "Bacchanalian Revel before a Herm [or Term] of Pan" by Nicholas Poussin and "Drunken Silenus" by Peter Paul Rubens.
Subject Terms:
Pan (Greek deity) | Silenus (Mythological character) | Bacchanalia. | Dance. | Drinking of alcoholic beverages. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works)
Contributors:
Based on (work): Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665. Bacchanalian revel before a term of Pan. | Based on (work): Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640. Drunken Silenus.