Large 19th Century Renaissance style French Bronze Bacchanalian Ewers or Vases.High quality pair of 19th Century Antique French Bacchanalian Bronze Ewers in Renaissance style.Impressive decorative antiques. Lovely deep bronze colour & patina.Relief decorated with Bacchanalian revelry, the handle with a sculpted Cupid figure and with bands of grapevine.Very good condition.Each H: 56.8cm x 25cm x 17cm.In�ancient Greek religion�and�myth,�Dionysus� is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility,�festivity, insanity, ritual madness,�religious ecstasy, and�theatre. He was also known as�Bacchus�by the Greeks (a name later adopted by the�Romans) for a frenzy he is said to induce baccheia. As�Dionysus Eleutherius�(''the liberator''), his wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful.�His�thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his�cult�and the freedoms he represents.�Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself.Bacchanalia can mean any uninhibited or drunken revelry. The bacchanal in art describes any small group of revellers, often including satyrs and perhaps Bacchus or Silenus, usually in a landscape setting. The subject was popular from the Renaissance onwards, and usually included a large degree of nudity among the figures.Message for shipping quotes to Europe and Worldwide.Dreams Less Sweet Antiques - Curated Theatrical Antiques, Curiosities & Works of Art.Items ship from London, Worldwide.Height is 57cm (22.4inches)
Width is 25cm (9.8inches)
Depth is 17cm (6.7inches)