Featured Carved Oval Wooden and Bronze Plaque

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

 

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

Debora

 

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

Debra

 

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.

 

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?

 

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

 

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)

 

I'm in the southeast of England.

 

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.

 

It has hungover a coal fire for many years, you can smell of coal tar but I still think it's at least 100 years old, I was half hoping it may have been by this guy lol
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/m...tributed-to-valentino-besarel/id-f_2948582/#0

 

Maybe these are better

 

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?)

 

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

 

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