English Pearlware Pottery Large Bacchus Jug, Staffordshire, Circa 1800

English Pearlware Pottery Large Bacchus Jug.

Staffordshire, Circa 1800.

The Pearlware pottery large jug depicts Bacchus sitting on a barrel holding a large cornucopia on his right shoulder which then forms the lip of the jug.  He wares a lion skin cloak.  The spout is then formed by a fish in green where the liquid within would issue from the open mouth.  

Around the barrel are purple grapes and green leaves. The handle is formed by a monkey standing on the left shoulder of Bacchus.  On the back is a fawn known as Pan holding pipes in his left hand and his right hand supports the cornucopia and there is an owl by his left side.

Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus. He is often seen with vines of grapes with him. Dionysus was said to be the last god to join the twelve Olympians. Supposedly, Hestia gave up her seat for him. His plants were vines and twirling ivy.

Dimensions: 13 1/4 inches high x 8 1/4 inches wide x 6 inches deep/=.

Reference: This jug is based upon a Wood Family model, see Sir Harold Mackintosh, Early English Figure Pottery (1938), p. 73 and p. 92 where the modelling is attributed to Voyez.

See Pratt Ware: English and Scottish relief decorated and underglaze coloured earthenware, 1780-1840, John and Griselda Lewis, Page 219, for a similar form Bacchus and Pan Jug.

(Ref: NY10489-kkrx)

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