Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Minton (Company)
Title:
Silenus.
Published / Created:
Stoke-on-Trent, England, ca. 1831.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded gray stoneware ; height 24 cm (including handle), width 22 cm (including handle), depth 17 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 37

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, page 82

The jug is decorated on one side with a depiction of an elderly Silenus, walking, supported by two older satyrs. The other side depicts a child Silenus, riding a donkey, supported by two young satyrs.
Subject Terms:
Silenus (Mythological character) | Satyrs (Greek mythology) | Drinking of alcoholic beverages. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming)