CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE SATYR CARRYING A WINESKIN
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th Bt. (1907-1978), Doughty House Richmond, thence by descent to present owner.

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Lot Essay

For another more complete example in bronze depicting a satyr kneeling with a weight on his shoulders, showing the same torsion of the muscular torso, now in the Turin Antiquities Museum, cf. C. Carducci, Il museo di antichità di Torino, Rome, 1959, p. 45.

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