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Roman Gold and Green Chalcedony Finger Ring. Satyr with Dionysiac Attributes.

£ 2800

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Roman Gold and Green Chalcedony Finger Ring. Satyr with Dionysiac Attributes.

£ 2800

Intaglio 6 × 9 mm;
Ring size US 3 2/4 - UK G · EU/FR 45½ - weight 3.96 g.
Roman art, c. 1st century A.D.

Roman hollow gold finger ring, the domed bezel set with a plasma intaglio depicting a satyr with Dionysiac attributes, in a closed mount. The full, continuous curve of the hoop belongs to a classic type of early Imperial Roman jewellery.
The intaglio shows a satyr nude, standing, the body in three-quarter view and the head in profile, caught in movement. In one hand he holds the pedum — the pastoral crook of the companions of Dionysus — and in the other an animal (a rabbit?), familiar game of the Bacchic train. 

The stone
Green chalcedony, translucent and deep in hue, was favoured by Roman engravers of the 1st century. Here the choice of stone and its colour echo the subject: the green answers the wild nature and vegetation of the Dionysiac world the satyr inhabits.
Iconography
The satyr, half-man half-beast of the train of Dionysus, embodies the vitality of wild nature and the intoxication of the thiasos. The pedum and the game held in hand evoke the hunt and pastoral life, constant themes of Bacchic imagery. A much-favoured subject of Roman glyptic, it made the ring a talisman of vitality and abundance.

 
Private Collection, Connecticut, 1990's
With Kallos Gallery, London, 2023
English private collection 

POSSIBLE RESIZING : NO

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