CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE HERM HEAD OF SILENUS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
7 ¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Artemis A.W. Joukowsky (1930-2020) and Dr. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (1936-2022), Providence, RI, acquired 1967-1974; thence by descent to the current owners.

Literature

T. Hackens and R. Winkes, eds., Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1985, p. 86, no. 66.

Exhibited

Providence, List Art Center, Brown University, Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection, 12 October-8 November 1985.

Conditions of sale

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Descriptif du lot

For a similar example, compare the head of Silenus on a janiform herm with Dionysus, no. 95 in L. Budde and R. Nicholls, Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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