A GREEK MARBLE STATUE OF A DANCING BACCHANT

GRAECO-ROMAN, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.

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A GREEK MARBLE STATUE OF A DANCING BACCHANT
GRAECO-ROMAN, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.
Her body twisted round in ecstatic pose, her long hair tied with a scarf and folded into a loose chignon down her back, the front of her hair wreathed in ivy, nude apart from a scarf tied round her back, traces of the fingers of a hand seizing her right shoulder, mounted, small areas of restoration
22 in. (56 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This statue from a Dionysiac group might have been similar to those extant groups such as Pan and Daphnis (Naples Museum 6329), Satyr and Hermaphrodite (Dresden), and Satyr and Nymph (Conservatori 1729), cf. R. R. R. Smith, Hellenistic Sculpture, London, 1991, pp. 130-131, figs. 158-160.

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