Bronze Arm of Dionysus
Graeco-Roman, 1st century BC - 1st century AD
Cast bronze
H. 10 cm
Provenance
Private collection, Europe, acquired prior to 1980; thence by descent
Antiquities, Christie’s, London, 1 October 2015, Lot 71
British private collection, acquired from the above
A finely modelled left arm of a bronze statuette, bent at the elbow with hand poised to hold a thyrsus, identifying the depicted as the Olympian god of wine and revelry - Dionysus.
SOLD
