A GRAECO-ROMAN BRONZE GROUP OF DIONYSOS SUPPORTED BY THE SATYR AMPELOS

1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.

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A GRAECO-ROMAN BRONZE GROUP OF DIONYSOS SUPPORTED BY THE SATYR AMPELOS
1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.
The youthful Dionysos is nude, except for a chlamys, high laced travelling boots, and a vine-wreathed fillet in his hair the ends of which fall to his shoulders. He looks down at the satyr to his left on whom he leans as if to steady himself, his left arm draped around the satyr's shoulders. Dionysos leans back slightly holding an upturned rhyton in his raised right hand and another(?) in his left. The satyr, wearing a short stippled cloth or pelt wound around and rolled over at the waist, looks up at Dionysos and bows slightly under his weight, supporting him with right arm raised up behind Dionysos' back, mounted
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Two French old labels on the mount.

Cf. M. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971, pp. 66-67, no. 67 and p.489, no. 100A where the iconography of the Dionysos-Ampelos group is referred to in P. Amandry, Collection Hélène Stathatos: Les Bijoux antiques, Strasbourg, 1953, pp. 91ff., no. 232, pl. 35, figs. 51-58; also see, E. D. Reeder, Hellenistic Art in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1988, p. 155, no. 65 for a similar bronze of Dionysos.

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