Double-Sided Relief with Theater Masks
1st century A.D.
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 24 × 31 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-251449
The rectangular, two-sided relief is carved on one side with two confronted theater masks, one representing a bearded man, who is accompanied by a scepter, and the other a youthful male beside a lyre. Sculpted in low relief on the reverse side is a mask of a balding satyr before a thyrsus and basket, symbols of Bacchus. Relief sculpture of this type, of which a number of others are known from Pompeii, Rome, and Ostia, stood on pillars and decorated the courtyards of villas or their gardens.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
Registry history
- 1st century A.D. — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — sculpture
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