Antique French Neoclassical Rococo Bronze Figural Group of Wine Bacchantes by Clodion 1762 Decorative Arts The tray's border having four

The tray's border having four bands of inlaid silver calligraphy in Naskh script and punctuated with circular silver inlaid geometric devices joined with meandering silver inlaid ribbons

pink & cream ground

Buchanan to the lower right

these are flanked with rope twist columns surmounted with Corinthian capitals

weight is 463 grams

Antique French Neoclassical Rococo Bronze Figural Group of Wine Bacchantes by Clodion 1762 Decorative Arts The tray's border having fourSOLD A fine antique bronze figural group of Bacchantes by Claude Michel (Clodion) ( 1738 1814). The bronze depicts a pair of bacchantes, the female followers of Bacchus the Roman god of wine and revelry (Dionysus was the Greek god). Both female figures are draped in Greco Roman dress and wearing sandals, one bacchante is depicted standing & holding a fruiting vine, the other is kneeling next to a wine amphora with grapes. This bronze was first cast in