Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Recently Added and standing on continuous wooden

and standing on continuous wooden legs

The gold was professionally tested using an Olympus GoldXpert XRF analyzer and tests as 24 karat

Charles Schneider & Edgar Brandt

Antique American Empire Period Cast Iron Clock

Metropolitan Museum and The British Museum

Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Recently Added and standing on continuous woodenA 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".