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Lot Essay
The panel is composed of three fragments, depicting a Dionysiac wine-making scene. The central section shows two satyrs, holding hands and treading grapes, each wearing a nebris (panther skin) tied around the neck, flanked on the right by Silenus carrying a basket overflowing with grapes. The right panel shows another young satyr wearing a nebris, playing a single aulos and a horn. The left panel shows a squatting satyr wearing nebris picking grapes from a vine in front. His basket is full, so he places the grapes in the folds of his cloak. The upper border is decorated with linked palmettes. Some of the original polychrome can still be seen on the grapes and the skin tone of the satyrs.
Campana reliefs are a type of decorative Roman terracotta panel, typically used in architecture to adorn the upper sections of walls, porticoes, or temple friezes. Named after the 19th-century Italian collector Giampietro Campana, who amassed a large collection of these artifacts, Campana reliefs were mass-produced in moulds, were originally brightly painted, and often featured mythological scenes, floral motifs, or processions. For similar panels see J. Stubbe Ostergaard, Imperial Rome, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1996, pp. 286-288, nos 187 and 189.
Campana reliefs are a type of decorative Roman terracotta panel, typically used in architecture to adorn the upper sections of walls, porticoes, or temple friezes. Named after the 19th-century Italian collector Giampietro Campana, who amassed a large collection of these artifacts, Campana reliefs were mass-produced in moulds, were originally brightly painted, and often featured mythological scenes, floral motifs, or processions. For similar panels see J. Stubbe Ostergaard, Imperial Rome, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1996, pp. 286-288, nos 187 and 189.