A ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF PANEL WITH SILENUS

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF PANEL WITH SILENUS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
25 ¾ in. (65.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Art Market, London, late 1970s.
Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 20 May 1982, lot 162.
Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 1 March 1984, lot 79.
Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 10 December 2009, lot 44.
with Barakat Galleries, Los Angeles.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2022.

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Lot Essay

Likely from one side of a quadrangular altar, this relief depicts Silenus, the paidagogos (tutor) of Dionysus, holding a tall shaft in his left hand and a phiale or shell in his right, all framed within a stepped border. Another side from the same altar with Dionysus and a panther was last sold at Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 9 June 2011, lot 163.

For a related altar with Dionysus and Silenus, see the example in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia, Arachne Online Database no. 6274304.

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