A Marble Figure of a Panther once Teased by a Satyr, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Description

A Marble Figure of a Panther once Teased by a Satyr
Marble
Height 19 1/2 in. 49.5 cm.

based on a Hellenistic work of circa 2nd Century B.C., crouching on a wine vessel and tree stump with her head turned up and to her right toward a now missing standing satyr pulling her up by the tail, her teeth bared and pupils recessed.

Provenance

American private collection, San Francisco, acquired in the 1950s on the New York art market (Michaans, California, June 8th, 2012, no. 1000)
Bonhams, London, Oct. 24th, 2012, no. 117, illus.

Catalogue Note

For complete versions of the group of a young satyr teasing a panther see Iris Love, Ophiuchus Collection, Florence, 1989, no. 13, pp. 76-83, and Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, Brussels, inv. no. A1143 (J. Ch. Balty, Guide du visiteur. Sculpture antique. I. Statuaire, Brussels, 1990, no. 24). See also M. Bieber, The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, rev. ed., New York, 1961, fig. 568 (Villa Albani, inv. no. 124).