CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE BUST OF A SATYR
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
21 ¼ in. (53.8 cm.) high

Provenance

with Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), New York.
William H. Bustin (1850-1929), Boston and New Jersey, acquired from the above, 1905; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Thirty-First Annual Report for the Year 1906, Cambridge, 1907, pp. 61 and 103.

Exhibited

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906-1920 (Loan no. 1727.06).

Lot Essay

This satyr, once from a complete figure, wears a thick pine wreath in his hair. For a related figure of a satyr playing with the infant Bacchus see no. 1656 in F.N. Pryce and A.H. Smith, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum.

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