The J.Chiurazzi et Fils workshop was established in Naples in 1870 and rapidly achieved success with its reproductions of Antique works of art in bronze and marble. The workshop benefited from its Neapolitan location, as it was able to copy many of the antiquities in the Naples museum. It is most famous for its distinctive green-patinated bronze statues, but the business also worked in marble. The design for the present Silenus appears in the company's catalogue of 1900 as no.4, Silene.