A Bronze Calyx Krater Handle, Roman Imperial, Augustan, late 1st Century B.C./early 1st Century A.D.

Each attachment plate in the form of a satyr's head with pointed ears turned inward and finely incised beard and hair, the eyes, teeth and diadem inlaid in silver, two volutes with rosette terminals above, the fluted handle flaring at the terminals.

Mathias Komor, New York [F.943], December 4th, 1980

Excellent, noses rubbed, head showed blurry in catalogue in much the same condition as the one in the foreground.
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For related calyx crater handles in Naples see E. Pernice, Die hellenistische Kunst in Pompeii, vol. 4, Gefässe und Geräte aus Bronze, Berlin and Leipzig, 1925, p. 41, figs. 50 and 52 (one engraved in Museo Borbonico, vol. VI, 1830, pl. LXIII, reproduced in Il bronzo dei Romani. Arredo e suppellettile, Rome, 1990, p. 125, fig. 7). Also see Sotheby's, New York, The Stansfeld Collection of Ancient Art, December 2nd, 1988, no. 57 (A. Herrmann, in A Passion for Antiquities. Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman, Malibu, 1994, p. 263, no. 131).