An Italian black patinated bronze model of the Herculaneum Satiro Ebbro

An Italian black patinated bronze model of the Herculaneum Satiro Ebbro, later 18th/early 19th century, portrayed nude and reclining on a lion-skin covered rock, mounted to a rectangular bardiglio marble base, 15.5cm high, 14cm wideThe present bronze takes its inspiration from the large Roman bronze of the drunken satyr, excavated at the Villa dei Papiri in Naples in 1750, now in the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale.