Appliqué in the form of a dancing maenad
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic period
Date: 2nd-1st century BC
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions:
4 1/2 × 3 15/16 in. (11.5 × 10 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 91.80.8
Provenance: sold by Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1972; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1991
Exhibition History: "Mediteranneo - Egipto, Grecia y Roma: Vidrio, Escultura y Relieves de la Antiguedad Clasica," Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico, April 27-Nov. 7, 2004.
Label Text
This appliqué may have decorated the lid of a mirror.
(Jessica Powers 2008)
(Jessica Powers 2008)
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