Double Terminal Heads of Dionysos and Ariadne
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
100 AD - 199 AD
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
350 x 220 x 285 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486328
Summary
Parian marble, Double Terminal Heads of Dionysos and Ariadne, Roman, 2nd century AD after archaic Greek original.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72), arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M. Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
22 (painted on front at base of bust)
Makers and roles
Roman, sculptor