Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Decorative Arts Set of 3 Whale Tail

Set of 3 Whale Tail Nesting Tables in Teak by G Plan

Both the top and base having bands of fine foliate and Arabesque engraving

Dialogue with Modernism"

The pencase having two loops to receive a cord so the case could be hung from a sash or belt

The bust pre-dates the German Reformation by half a century

Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Decorative Arts Set of 3 Whale TailA 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".