MARSYAS

This Silenus is probably the excellent musician Marsyas, depicted here pressing grapes after the vintage. The Ithaca relief is freely taken from a genuine mould for making terracotta vases, preserved in the Museo Archeologico of Arezzo. It can be dated back to the first or second century b.C.

Big: cm 43 (h) x 28 (w)
Medium: cm 24 (h) x 17 (w)
Piccola: cm 24 (h) x 17 (w)
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GRAPE-PRESSING SCENE

Bas–relief inspired by an earthenware plate, once coloured, used as decoration for the public or religious buildings in antiquity. The original model is at Museo Archeologico Civico di Bologna and
was sculpted between the end of the first and the
beginning of the second century a. D.

Framed (as in picture): cm 22 (h) x 30 (w)
Detail with no frame: cm 9,5 (h) x 21 (w)
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