The present group is based on a boxwood group by David Heschler in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin (Feuchtmayr and Schädler, loc. cit.), which probably dates from the 1640's. The correspondence is basically exact, although there are minor differences: in the bronze the outstretched left hand of one of the bacchantes is more open and there is no drapery round her left forearm, while one of the satyrs has lost his erection.