2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze ewer or jug handle formed as a lentoid-section strap; to the upper end a crescentic bracket, thumb-pad formed as a foliate scroll; to the lower end, a facing satyr mask with large pointed ears, comic face and animal skin tied below the chin. 188 grams, 14.5cm (5 3/4"). Property of a European businessman; formerly in a Belgium collection; previously from an old German collection. [No Reserve] Fine condition.