Property from an American Private Collection

A Roman Marble Figure of Dionysos, Eastern M😼editerranean

circa early 3rd Century A.D.

standing with his weight on the right leg, the now missing part of his raised left arm separately carved and once dowelled on above the elbow, and wearing a panther skin tied on his right shoulder, a cluster of grapes preserved on the left shoulder, his head turned to the right, with parted lips and deeply drilled pupils and inner canthi, his centrally parted hair with finely drilled individual strands and surmounted by a wreath of ivy leaves and grapes cascading to the shoulders, the god’s hair and grape cluster exploiting a natural blue-gray vein in the marble, the back roughly worked; no restorations.

Height 31.8 cm.