A ROMAN BRONZE APPLIQUÉ IN THE FORM OF A MASK OF DIONYSOS
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A ROMAN BRONZE APPLIQUÉ IN THE FORM OF A MASK OF DIONYSOS

50 B.C./A.D.

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A ROMAN BRONZE APPLIQUÉ IN THE FORM OF A MASK OF DIONYSOS
50 B.C./A.D.
The youthful face with hooded eye-lids, articulated pupils, and open mouth, his wavy hair tied up in a knot with escaping curly locks falling down on each side of his face, wearing a ribboned wreath of 'ivy' leaves and corymbs, a Herakles' knotted bow on top of his head, mounted
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high
Exhibited
Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain: a loan exhibition in aid of the Ashmole Archive, London, 1986, no. 39.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
T. B. L. Webster, Monuments Illustrating New Comedy, 3rd ed. rev. by J. R. Green and A. Seeberg, London, 1995, 2, pp. 339-340, 4XB39b, pl. 47; C. Picón, Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain, London, 1986, p. 36, no. 39; and H. Cahn, Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen AG, Auktion XXXIV, 6 May 1967, p. 18, no. 33, pl. 10.

Cf. K. Gschwantler et al, Guss + Form: Bronzen aus der Antikensammlung, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 1986, p. 120, Abb. 236, no. 171; J. Petit, Bronzes Antiques de la Collection Dutuit, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1980, p. 131, no. 59; and Catalogue of the Bronzes, Greek, Roman and Etruscan, The British Museum, London, 1899, p. 266, no. 1649 for similar, formerly in the Payne Knight collection.

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