BRONZE PLAQUE OF BACCHUS – NETHERLANDS, 16TH CENTURY 🍇🔥

Some pieces are small in size, yet immense in impact — and this bronze plaque, just 13 cm across, is one of them. A dense, vibrant relief where Bacchus appears surrounded by satyrs, bacchantes and putti, in an ancient celebration of wine, the body, and freedom.

The bronze carries that deep, dark, almost earthy patina that only time can build — and when the light hits, the volumes rise as if the scene starts dancing again. It’s a miniature theatre: laughter, imagined music, gestures in motion, and a pagan energy that still grips the eye today.

By its language and the character of the relief, I’d place it in the Netherlands (Low Countries), probably 16th century — a piece with a Renaissance spirit, made to be handled with respect and contemplated slowly.