Bacchic youth carrying a wine jug
Wedgwood and Bentley
ca. 1769–80 · Jasperware · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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.
- Artist
- Wedgwood and Bentley
- Date
- ca. 1769–80
- Medium
- Jasperware
- Culture
- British, Staffordshire
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1914
