Featured Carved Oval Wooden and Bronze Plaque

Discussion in 'Art' started by 808 raver, May 1, 2017.

  1. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    Please Help
    I bought this plaque around a year ago because I couldn't resist but I really can't find out anything about it.
    It has a cast bronze roundel in the middle and a signature? on the back 91 1.JPG 92.JPG 91 1.JPG 92.JPG 93.JPG 94.JPG 96.JPG 98.JPG 99.JPG 100.JPG
     
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  2. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    It looks like the decorative end of a wine barrel. (Central figure is Bacchus, Roman God of Wine.)

    Debora
     
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  3. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Here's an example of a working carved barrel head. (Obviously doesn't compare in quality to yours.)

    Debra

    Barrel Head.jpg
     
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  4. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Very nice! I can see why you bought it.

    Name looks like E. A. Colquhoun. Rather an odd name and I swear it's missing a vowel.
     
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  5. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    Thanks Debora for the reply, I don't think it's from a barrel as it has a hole in the middle that's original but the plug is a replacement. I think it's always been made to hang on a wall but where it comes from and what date?
     
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  6. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    I don't know if that was the name of the carver or put on at a later date?
     
  7. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Well, I be darned. That's a valid spelling - and there are lots of people (in Scotland, mostly) with that surname.

    Got a number of hits on the British Phone Book files on Ancestry. Including an E A Colquhoun living in Glasgow in the 1970's.

    Where are you, raver? (in general)
     
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  8. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    I'm in the southeast of England.
     
  9. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Close enough!

    It really doesn't look like something an owner would do. At least not to me. I would place odds on it being the carver.
     
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  11. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    Maybe these are better
     

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  14. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Wow, that's neat too.

    Yours certainly doesn't look like your average dour Scotsman made it, but you never know.

    I know you put a tape measure in one picture, but is that metric? How big is that in inches (or feet as the case may be?)
     
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  16. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    From memory it's about 1ft wide and 1.5ft tall
     
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  19. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    I don't think it was a working barrel head either but I think it may have been designed to represent one. Same shape and featuring relief of god of wine. Victorian.

    Debora
     
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    808 raver Well-Known Member

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