A Marble Relief with Dancing Satyrs, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.

from the same quadrangular basin as the previous lot, each figure turned in opposite directions and looking back at each other, each wearing a panther(?) skin, and playing the krotala.

Cardinal Camillo Massimo (1620-1677), Palazzo [Nerli] alle Quattro Fontane (later P. Albani), Rome
Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1682-1779), Palazzo Albani (later P. Albani del Drago), Rome, 1719
Prince Filippo del Drago (1824-1913), Palazzo Albani del Drago, Rome, 1858
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, November 22nd, 1961, no. 948
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, October 14th, 1999, no.  1310 (part)

Giorgio Zoega, Li bassirelievi antichi di Roma, vol. I, Rome, 1808, pl. VI (engraving)
Friedrich Matz and F. von Dühn, Antike Bildwerke in Rom, vol. III, Leipzig, 1882, no. 3501
Friedrich Hauser, Die neuattischen reliefs, Stuttgart, 1889, p. 92
Giulia Fusconi, "Un taccuino di disegni di Raymond Lafage e il Palazzo alle Quattro Fontane di Roma," in Camillo Massimo, collezionista di antichità. Fonti e materiali (Xenia Antiqua. Monografie, 3), p. 86, no. F.66, pl. LXVII (1679 drawing by Raymond Lafage)
Massimo Pomponi, "La collezione del Cardinal Massimo e l'inventario del 1677," ibidem, p. 97, no. 34

Stress crack running horizontally, visible in the catalogue photograph. A hole in center at top of relief between heads of satyrs, now plugged with marble in front and in back with lead, plaster around perimeter. Number 948 inscribed in pencil in lower left corner. A mortis on top of rim for attachment of metal element. Upper molding probably chiseled off in 17th century. Surface slightly weathered. Waxed.
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