A Marble Bust of the Young Dionysos, Roman Imperial, 1st/early 2nd century A.D.

probably from a trapezophoros or table support, the god wearing a goat skin across his chest and a mantle draped over his shoulder, his head turned slightly to his right, his long wavy hair parted in the center and surmounted by a large wreath of ivy and grape vine.

South American private collection, acquired in Paris in the 1920s/1930s

As shown. Note that the surface is very weathered and worn. Minor chips overall and a superficial hairline crack across the base of the neck and top of the left shoulder. The vertical pillar that formed the table support covers most of the roughly carved back of the bust.
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The almost complete trapezophoros from which this upper fragment originates is illustrated as being on the Rome art market in the early years of the 20th century (see the glass slide preserved in the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, Fotothek DAI-Rom.Inventarbuch Photonummer 16476 – 17839 [Vol.4.3] no. 16707; Arachne, Köln, Unstructured Photo Holdings, Serial number: 1060180).