Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Mid-Century Modern painted on an ivory wafer

painted on an ivory wafer and signed "Smart" to the lower right hand side

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The table is raised on four tapering legs joined with a elongated 'H' frame stretcher with a turned 'acorn' finial to the center

Weight: 12

Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Mid-Century Modern painted on an ivory waferA very good antique Neo Classical bronze of a Bacchante or Maenad, by Spanish sculptor Gustave Obiols Delgado (1858 1902). The sculpture circa 1890. This large & very attractive, finely modeled bronze depicts a female follower of Dionysus the Greek god of wine, fruit, religious ecstacy, fertility, he was also known as Bacchus, a name later adopted by the Romans. These female figures were also referred to as Maenads, which translates as "raving ones".