Post Medieval Mixed Glass Bottle Group

Standing on a hexagonal base wearing a goatskin mantle tied by the forelegs around his shoulders, with poppy seed-heads and bunches of grapes by the left arm; in his raised right hand, a bunch of grapes and in his left hand a cudgel; stump of a tree by his right leg and barrel beside his left, with a lamb to the rear placing its foreleg on top; modelled after the so-called Fauno Rosso from Hadrian's Villa, now in the Capitoline Museum. 18.5 kg, 67 cm high



From an important Paris gallery, France.

Half-man, half-beast, satyrs were believed to be the children of goats and mountain nymphs. Followers of the god Dionysus, they had a reputation for drunkenness and spent their days participating in orgiastic rituals. They represented the crude and boisterous facets of the stereotypical male persona, particularly of rural man.

Of squat spherical form with a broad cylindrical neck, strap handle and foot with rolled rim, bearded face or Bartmann 'mask', frieze of busts within roundels and acanthus palmettes over and below the medial inscription; neck and rim restored; label to base reading 'Schriftbandkrug Renaissance Frechen 1550'. 634 grams, 18 cm high



Ex private UK collection. Acquired from a provincial auction.

The biconvex obsidian cabochon with intaglio profile female bust of a matron with neatly dressed hair; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 1.65 grams, 15 mm



Ex property of a Richmond gentleman; part of his family collection formed before 1980; thence by descent.