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CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN BRONZE SILENUS MASK APPLIQUÉ
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The companion of Dionysus with a fillet of ivy and berries along his bald pate, his bulging almond-shaped eyes set back below his furrowed, overhanging brow, with a snub nose and rounded cheek bones, his beard and moustache formed of thick radiating wavy locks
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The companion of Dionysus with a fillet of ivy and berries along his bald pate, his bulging almond-shaped eyes set back below his furrowed, overhanging brow, with a snub nose and rounded cheek bones, his beard and moustache formed of thick radiating wavy locks
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
Provenance
with Charles Ede, Ltd., London.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990.
Literature
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, no. 90-11.