Cleveland Museum of Art
Dancing Satyr
- Date
- 500–475 BCE
- Medium
- painted terracotta
- Culture
- Greece, Boeotia
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 156755
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Part man and part beast, satyrs were mythical woodland creatures. In art, they were depicted with the ears and tail of a goat or horse, sometimes with hooves, and in a high state of sexual arousal. Satyrs often accompanied Dionysus, the god of wine, in his drinking bouts and other escapades. These three probably once decorated the rim of a large punch-bowl-shaped vessel for serving wine.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- Norbert Schimmel, NY | 1992: Sotheby's, NY sale 12/16/92, no. 53 | Norbert Schimmel, NY; (Sotheby's, NY sale 12/16/92, no. 53)
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