ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF PAN
C. 1ST - 2ND CENTURY A.D.
£1,512
Classical Ancient Art // Form Through Time
Auction: Classical Ancient Art - 21st March 2024 at 2pm
Description
carved marble, the god Pan is depicted in a state of drunken ecstasy, the mouth open, the beard wild and unkempt, raised on a bespoke stone base
Dimensions
10.5cm tall (unmounted), 18.7cm tall (including mount)
Provenance
Provenance:
Private collection, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, acquired late 1960’s, thence by family descent
Footnote
For similar please see:
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, inventory number 4766
Note:
The rustic goat god Pan was venerated all over the Greek and Roman world as an uncivilised power of nature. His cult originated among the herdsmen of Arcadia, a wild mountainous region of Greece, but by the time this Roman marble head was produced, Pan had become primarily a denizen of private villas, where on wall paintings and in garden sculpture, he disported with Dionysus and his band of satyrs and maenads.