Description

Scarce C19th Italian Neapolitan �Grand Tour� souvenir bronze reduction of The Drunken Satyr of Herculaneum.
Well-cast model of the bronze statue after the antique ,of the drunken elderly Satyr or faun (� satiro ebbro �) ,depicted lying naked on a rock upon a lion�s-skin . Excavated from Vesuvius-stricken buried Herculaneum in 1754 from the Villa of the Papyri , where it had adorned a swimming pool in the middle of the perstilium or colonnaded garden. The sculpture depicts a follower of the wine god Dionysus in inebriated repose .
Excellent attention to detail with a rich consistent patina and colour .
The original 1st century BC Roman bronze statue now displayed in the Naples Archaeological Museum in Italy .
H 10�
W 12�
D 5�
Italy , Naples c.1880
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