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 view

ClassificationsTools and equipment

Collections

Ancient Greece and Rome

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.