Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Recently Added each base with three drawers

each base with three drawers and three cupboard doors below with carved panels and raised on plinth bases

and then to Pasadena in 1902

Made of the finest mahogany this cabinet has the shape of a secretaire abattant but is in fact a compact armoire cabinet

great size

Bengt Nordenberg (1822-1902) was a master of Swedish Romanticism

Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Bronze Neo-Classical Sculpture Statue Bacchante 1890 By Gustave Obiols Delgado Recently Added each base with three drawersA 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".