Roman Faunus Playing Pipes Figure

1st century BC-1st century AD. A bronze lamp or vessel lid with figure of Faunus (Pan) advancing, wearing a sheepskin kilt secured at the waist and with a short tail, holding a shepherd's crook in the left hand and playing the syrinx held to the mouth in the right hand; basal ring to the underside of the base, pierced hinge lug. [A video of this item is available to view on TimeLine Auctions website.] Cf. Rolland, H. Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 142 for type. 215 grams, 10.5cm (4"). From an important London collection; previously in the Nasser collection, kept in the UK since 1993.
Condition Report: Fine condition.