Ivory furniture attachment
Unknown
early 1st century CE · Ivory · Greek and Roman Art
These reliefs once decorated a dining couch. They would have been attached to the two ends of the fulcrum (headrest), with the head of Cupid in a roundel at the lower end and the duck’s head, with a glass insert for the eye, forming the curving upper end.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- early 1st century CE
- Medium
- Ivory
- Culture
- Roman
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917