CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE OSCILLUM FRAGMENT
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The obverse sculpted in high relief with a profile female mask, probably a maenad, wearing a high stephane in her curling hair, ringlets falling behind her ear, with open, smiling mouth and curving chin, the reverse sculpted in shallow relief with the head of a bearded satyr facing left within a wide border
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000) collection, Paris, France.
Private collection, Paris, France.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
R. Peyrefitte, Un Musée de l'Amour, Paris, 1972, p. 24.

This panel, carved on both sides, was most likely part of a decorative scheme, originally placed on a pilaster in a Roman garden. Several examples have been found in Pompeii, for two similar from the 'House of the Gilded Cupids', cf. M. Beard and C. Mattusch, Pompeii and the Roman Villa, London, 2008, nos 74-75.

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