1970s, Mid-Century Modern Brass Italian Bacchus Table Lamp

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An amazing hand-crafted solid brass table lamp designed and manufactured in Italy in the Seventies, it's in working conditions and … more An amazing hand-crafted solid brass table lamp designed and manufactured in Italy in the Seventies, it's in working conditions and it needs a regular e27 bulb, it works both 110-240 volts. Dimensions of height is without lampshade as it has. The figure depicted is Bacchus (called by the Greeks Dionysus) is the god of wine and mysteries. It is the symbol of inebriation, sensuality and the most unbridled vitalism, as manifested in the orgiastic rites in his honor; but he is also the god who assures the 'pure', the faithful initiated into his secret cult, a blissful fate in the after life. less