A Roman marble panther
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Depicted crouching on a branch, with large paws and muscular sinuous body, the head turned upwards, with open mouth showing its fangs and ears flat back against the head in a menacing pose, the eyes with recessed pupils, 19¼in (49cm) high, mounted
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Depicted crouching on a branch, with large paws and muscular sinuous body, the head turned upwards, with open mouth showing its fangs and ears flat back against the head in a menacing pose, the eyes with recessed pupils, 19¼in (49cm) high, mounted
Sold for
£12,500
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Footnotes
- Provenance:
American private collection of an old founding family in San Francisco, acquired in the 1950s from the New York art market.
Literature:
This fragment was likely to be part of a larger group of a dancing satyr or Dionysus. Panthers are often associated with Dionysiac iconography since they were thought to be the animals drawing the god's chariot. A group of a drunken Dionysus leaning on a satyr with a panther is in the Ludovisi Collection at Palazzo Altemps, Rome, accession no. 8606.
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