Silenus holding the Infant Bacchus
Wedgwood
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1768 - circa 1966
Materials
Black basalt stoneware
Measurements
450 x 208 x 170 mm
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 513450
Summary
Black basaltware, Silenus holding the Infant Bacchus, Wedgwood. A figure of Silenus leaning against tree stump, cradling the infant Bacchus. Titled 'Faun and Bacchus'. Impressed Wedgwood mark. The original Roman copy after early Hellenistic was found in Rome in the 16th century in the Gardens of Sallust near the Quirinal. Its ownership changed a number of times between 1569 when it is first recorded, and in 1807 Napoleon acquired it for France and is now in the Louvre.
Provenance
Part of the Fairhaven Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1966 by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)
Makers and roles
Wedgwood
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 77