Stock No: 16807

A large and beautifully modelled Parian Ware group of Ariadne and the Panther, after the marble sculpture by Johann Heinrich Dannecker. Although this example of Parian Ware is unmarked it is the same model produced by Minton & Co in 1847 until the 1860s for Summerly’s Art Manufactures. It is undoubtedly of the finest quality and was most likely produced by this factory.

Notes: Danneker's Ariadne and the Panther was one of the most renowned works of sculpture of the nineteenth-century, drawing huge crowds to view it in Frankfurt, in the "Ariadneum" built solely for its display. It depicts the Cretan princess Ariadne, wife of the god of wine Dionysus (identified by her crown of vine leaves), seated on a panther in a relaxed pose. The panther was a creature associated with the god of wine.

English, c.1860.

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