A Bronze Furniture Support, late Hellenistic/Early Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century B.C./1st Century A.D.

in the form of Pappasilenos emerging from a three-petaled calyx on top of a four-clawed animal foot, his hands flanking his prominent belly, with swirling tuft of hair at the navel, long moustache, divided wavy beard, snub nose, and gnarled brow, his long animal ears flopping onto his shoulders, a hole at the back of the head for insertion of the furniture leg.

Boustros Collection, Paris, until 1978-1982

proper right claw repaired, note chip to foot and casting flaw between central claws, tip of proper left calyx leaf broken off in antiquity, surface is slightly worn and appears to have been waxed, otherwise good and as shown
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For related examples see P. Perdrizet, Bronzes grecs d'Égypte de la collection Fouquet, Paris, 1911, pl. IX, 21, E. Babelon and J.A. Blanchet, Catalogue des bronzes antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1895, no. 389, H. Rolland, Bronzes antiques de la Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, no. 398, p. 172, and Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Mainz, 1974, no. 98.