A Roman Bronze Figure of a Satyr, circa 1st Century A.D.

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Description

A Roman Bronze Figure of a Satyr
Height 2 6/8 in. 6.6 cm.

dancing and playing the krotala above his head, and wearing a loincloth, the facial features sensitively rendered.

Provenance

American private collection, acquired prior to 1980

Catalogue Note

For a closely related example of similar scale cf. E. Babelon and A. Blanchet, Catalogue des bronzes antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1895, 429 (Reinach, Répertoire, vol. II, p. 142, no. 2).