Lot description
A BRONZE BACCHIC FIGURE SUPPORTING THE GLOBE BY ADRIAEN DE VRIES (DIED 1626), 1626 Depicted wearing vine leaves in his hair, standing with his legs astride and hunched forward; with his arms upraised and supporting the globe; a tree trunk support by his proper left leg entwined with grapevines and with pan pipes hanging from it; all on an integrally cast square plinth decorated in shallow relief with leaves and fowers; signed and dated on the edge of the plinth ‘ADRIANVS FRIES 1626’; areas of oxidisation; minor repairs; the globe probably a 17th century replacement 43 in. (109 cm) high
