

PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION
For a similar figure on a 2nd Century A.D. Roman bronze balsamarium (coincidentally also in the Cabinet des Médailes, inv. no. 1420) decorated in relief with wrestling scenes from the palaestra, see Comte de Caylus, Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines, Paris, 1752-1767, vol. I, p. 217, pl. LXXXVIII, E. Babelon and J.-A. Blanchet, Catalogue des bronzes antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1895, pp. 574-575, no. 1420, fig. 1420, H. Rolland, Bronzes antiques de Haute-Provence (Basses-Alpes, Vaucluse), Paris, 1965, no. 298, and C. Braun, Römische Bronzebalsamarien mit Reliefdekor (BAR, vol. 917), Oxford, 2001, no. 44, pl. 49.