Bacchus Table

Today our OGH group visited the amazing David Roche Foundation house museum in North Adelaide. He left his house and contents to the State of South Australia - and what a collection it was. He was a renowned dog breeder and antique and art collector. Art and dogs, how good is that!

This is the Bacchus Table in one of the last rooms we visited at the David Roche Foundation Museum. It is a stunning micro-mosaic of the young Roman God of the grape Bacchus, crafted by Clemente Ciuli.

A micro-mosaic is a special form of mosaic that uses unusually small mosaic pieces (tesserae) of glass, or in later Italian pieces an enamel-like material, to make small figurative images.

The table sits sits atop a superb ormolu decorated tripod base made of mahogany. I chose to show just the top.