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 tan stoneware ; height 23 cm (including handle), width 18 cm (including handle), depth 12 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 21
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"; and '12'.

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.