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ECL-Bm.10:6-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.10:6-2013

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Identification

Title

Bacchic base

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Was Fa 2 no. 60
Bm 10. 5b, 6, 7, 8 are all catalogued together as different views of the same Bacchic base

Other number

Fa 3 no. 60

Description

Content (description)

A rectangular base with a foot projecting obliquely at each corner, decorated with the protome of a winged, horned, lion-faced monster. On each side is a figure scene beneath a broad band of floral scroll.
5b: main face. Dionysus visits Icarius. On left Icarius sits on a couch, a female reclining by him, and gestures in welcome to Dionysus, who stands in the centre, supported by a small satyr, while another removes his sandal. On right come three satyrs, piping and dancing, and lastly a bearded male embracing a female. In front of the draped couch stands a table. A curtain is draped across the background in two long swags. On far right a herm stands on a round pedestal.
6: back. In the centre, two winged putti, weeping and turning away, hold a large butterfly by its wings over two blazing torches which lean against an altar/pedestal. On each side a centaur gallops towards them, the one on left young and holding a thyrsus, the other bearded and with a pedum; each looks back to the figure riding on his back, on left a maenad, on right a nude figure playing the lyre.
7: In the centre, a bearded male, wearing a shaggy skin, sits to left on a rock, milking a goat, by the head of which stands a draped female and steadies it. On right a statue of a draped female holding a lotus flower stands on a stepped round base by a bare gnarled tree.
8: In the centre a deer suckles its young. A nude male leans on his staff on right and watches, while a half-draped female sits far left and assists the young animal. On far right on a round pedestal stands the statue of a bearded nude male holding a staff over his shoulder.

Content (object)

plinth

Dimensions

height (actual size): 474mm
width (actual size): 756mm

Inscription

Ciferri Villa Montalto No. 60 written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

Villa Montalto N. 60 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left
III written in pencil below drawing

Materials & techniques note

red chalk on paper

Production

Person

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Fuhrer (no. 191)
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