Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a European Private Collection
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF DIONYSOS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
standing with the weight on his left leg and holding a small feline in his left arm, and wearing a long chiton buttoned on the upper right arm, panther-skin fastened on the right shoulder and belted beneath the breast, and himation draped around the lower body, his missing lower right arm, left elbow, front of right buttock, and part of the animal skin over the right shoulder-blade carved separately, the head repaired in antiquity; no restorations.
Height 113 cm.
private collection, southern France, on an early 20th Century socle
Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired from the above in 2008/2009
acquired by the present owner from the above
For the costume cf. the seated statue of Dionysos from the Thrasyllos-monument in Athens (B. Andreae, Skulptur des Hellenismus, 2001, p. 79, pl. 24), and the statuette of Dionysos sold at Sotheby’s, London, December 11th, 1989, no. 368. Also cf. a torso from Stratonikeia: R. Özgan, Die Skulpturen von Stratonikeia, 1999, p. 127, no. K31, pl. 40b. Holding a pet animal in the left arm is common for statues of children; cf. a statue of a boy in Athens: C. Vorster, Griechische Kinderstatuen, 1983, p. 360f., no. 88, pl. 20,1.
