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| Keywords: Workshop of Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue - Small Urn with Silenus - Walters 482079.jpg The drunken Silenus ribald companion of the wine-god Bacchus is depicted with his attendants crowning him with garlands carrying cornucopias with grapes and pressing wine activities associated with Bacchic ecstasy and appropriate for what was probably a drinking vessel The image shows the influence of an engraving made more than a century earlier by the artist Annibale Carracci 1560-1609 whose works continued to inspire artists of the succeeding generations 1720 Baroque earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 13 3 accession number 48 2079 19644 Mr Joseph V Vizcarra Lombard Illinois date and mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum 1955 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1955 place of origin Naples Italy Walters Art Museum license Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum Media from the Walters Art Museum no creator template Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue | ||||
