41 LATE HELLENISTIC OR ROMAN BRONZE ITHYPHALLIC GROTESQUE, nude but for a short cloak draped around his upper torso, he cavorts with a misshapen head bent back and body bending forward at the waist. Both hands are stretched out and once carried an object; his colossal phallus towers like an animal tail from the back. 2nd Century BC-1st Century AD. H. 3 in. (7.8 cm.) Ex German collection. Cf. D. Mitten and S. Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, 1967, pp. 122-123. nos. 121, 122; E. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971, p. 130, no. 146. 42 ROMAN BRONZE SPINARIO seated upon a rock, his left leg crossed over his right knee. He bends forward while pulling a thorn from his left foot. He wears a Phrygian cap and a tunic. 2nd-3rd Century AD. H. 2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm.) An unusual representation in bronze. Ex French private collection. 43 ROMAN BRONZE CAPTIVE BEARDED BARBARIAN TIED TO A TREE Probably representing a captive German or Dacian, he wears only trousers. 1st-2nd Century AD. H. 2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) Ex German private collection. 44 ROMAN BRONZE HYGIEIA, GODDESS OF HEALTH and daughter of Asklepios, a himation over her peplos, her hair in a saccos, and feeding a sacred serpent which is draped around her right wrist. 1st Century AD. H. 3 in. (7.7 cm.) An example in fine style of a rare depiction in bronze. Ex German private collection.
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