Mirror with Cupids and Silenus punishing a nude female
2nd century A.D.
Medium/TechniqueGilt bronze
DimensionsOther: 10.6 x 0.6 cm (4 3/16 x 1/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam E. Nickerson Fund
Accession number1986.750
On View
On viewClassificationsTools and equipment
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to be from Asia Minor [see note 1]. By 1972, Roger Peyrefitte (b. 1907 - d. 2000), Paris [see note 2]; December 11-12, 1978, “Le Musée secret” de Roger Peyrefitte sale, H. Cahn, Paris, lot 434. By 1985, Royal-Athena Galleries, New York [see note 3]; 1986, sold by Royal-Athena Galleries to the MFA. (Accession date: December 17, 1986)
NOTES:
[1] According to an invoice from Royal-Athena Galleries.
[2] M. Haas and R. Peyrefitte, Un Musée de l’amour (1972), p. 38. Another mirror with Venus Vitrix from the same collection is now in the Princeton University Art Museum (inv. no. y1985-1; December 11-12, 1978, “Le Musée secret” de Roger Peyrefitte sale, H. Cahn, Paris, lot 435).
[3] Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, vol. 4 (1985), p. 110, no. 324.
NOTES:
[1] According to an invoice from Royal-Athena Galleries.
[2] M. Haas and R. Peyrefitte, Un Musée de l’amour (1972), p. 38. Another mirror with Venus Vitrix from the same collection is now in the Princeton University Art Museum (inv. no. y1985-1; December 11-12, 1978, “Le Musée secret” de Roger Peyrefitte sale, H. Cahn, Paris, lot 435).
[3] Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, vol. 4 (1985), p. 110, no. 324.
about A.D. 100–200
about 340–320 B.C.
435–405 B.C.
about 350–300 B.C.
about 500 B.C.
A.D. 119–125
about 600–500 B.C.
about 580–560 B.C.
about 490 B.C.
about 480 B.C.
