Fulcrum from a couch with Dionysus' head and head of a dog

150–100 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 10.2 × 13.2 × 3.5 cm (4 × 5 3/16 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund
Accession Number: 1966.105
Culture: Roman
Period: Roman
Classification: Tools and Equipment
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Sotheby London, June 13, 1966, lot 154; Arcade Gallery, London; Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, 1973; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Matthew M. McCarty, Ancient Bronzes: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, Spring 2006).

Susan B. Matheson and Diana E.E. Kleiner, I Claudia Women in Ancient Rome, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996), 149–150, no. 89, ill.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 266, ill.

Susan B. Matheson, Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness: Neoclassical Art 1700–1900, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1991), 21, no. 58.

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