A LARGE DUTCH DELFT FIGURAL BACCHUS FOUNTAIN JUG WITH COVER, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with a buffoon with fluffy face, wearing a flowered buttoned vest, a bunch of grapes to his collar, his back with hatches and various leafy bunches of grapes, his breeches yellow, his white stockings applied with a bunch of grapes, his buckled shoes manganese-red and yellow, holding a cup in his left hand and a globular blue jug to his head in his right hand, seated astride a hatched barrel, the front with pewter tap, inscribed NANTES, surrounded with leaves, the back with bunches of grapes, on quadrupod rocaille marbled base, the cover modelled as a large bunch of grapes headdress (upper part to beaker missing, left arm repaired to elbow), marked van Duyn, mid 18th Century