Bacchic youth carrying a wine jug

ca. 1769–80
Not on view
Images of cameos proliferated on objects of all sorts during the age of Neoclassicism. Some were copies, some inventions, but all owed their origins to Greco-Roman antiquity. By implication, these adaptations underscored the owner's erudition and sober good taste. The owner might be rich or humble. Pottery such as Wedgwood's, for example, made enough use of cameos to satisfy all comers.

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  • Title: Bacchic youth carrying a wine jug
  • Maker: Wedgwood and Bentley (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1769–1780)
  • Date: ca. 1769–80
  • Culture: British, Staffordshire
  • Medium: Jasperware
  • Dimensions: 5 7/8 × 4 1/4 in. (14.9 × 10.8 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1914
  • Object Number: 14.132.5
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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