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Greek mask of Pan, Hellenistic, c.3rd-1st century BC

Greek mask of Pan, Hellenistic, c.3rd-1st century BC

Terracotta

Height: 20.9cm

11651 TA

£ 45,000

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Further images

Mask of the satyr Pan, expertly moulded by hand, his animated face held in a frown. The high-arching eyebrows are furrowed with creases along his forehead. A pair of short horns above his brow emerges from the tousled hair, a curling beard and moustache frame his face. The pupils of the wide-open eyes, the nostrils, and the mouth between the open lips, were cut away before firing. His pointed ears confirm his animalistic, satyr identity. Holes at the ears and top of head for suspension. Broken and repaired from a few large fragments with minor fill and overpainting visible along the breaks. With insignificant minor surface wear throughout.

Provenance

Artemis A.W. Joukowsky (1930-2020) and Dr. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (1936-2022), Providence, Rhode Island, USA; acquired 13th July 1970, thence by descent

Exhibitions

List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 'Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection', 12th October-8th November 1985

Literature

Compare a Hellenistic example, wreathed and with polychromy, dated to the 3rd-2nd century BC, formerly in the Fleischman collection and now at the Getty Villa, Los Angeles, USA, inventory number 96.AD.305.

Publications

Sotheby's, London, UK, Catalogue of Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Irish Bronze Age, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Byzantine Antiquities, Islamic Pottery and Metalwork, 13th July 1970, lot 86
T. Hackens and R. Winkes, eds., Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1985), pp. 96-97, no.71

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