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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 417815, member: 5833&quot;]The figures are somewhat hybrid.&nbsp; Basically they are participants in a bacchanale, bacchantes/maenads or nymphs.&nbsp; The one on the left carries a kind of staff called a thyrsus associated with the wine god Bacchus/Dionysus and her posture indicates she is dancing.&nbsp; Her sister plays a double flute, an instrument, along with various percussion instruments, used in the revels.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the wreath carried by the lead figure that is out of place and was probably picked up from <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/hours/wedgwood-hours" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/hours/wedgwood-hours" rel="nofollow">Wedgwood&#039;s Dancing Hours</a>, designed by John Flaxman.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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