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Title: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: jordan200023 on May 16, 2014, 04:22:05 AM

I need a hand in identifying the statue.

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: cogar on May 16, 2014, 05:08:50 AM

I'll make a guess and say its name is ...... the "Impregnator" or "Fertility Devil".  ;D ;D ;D

How did you acquire it.

Is it made of metal, ...... brass, bronze, etc.?

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: jordan200023 on May 16, 2014, 05:15:31 AM

it was at the bottom of a box of iteams i got from an auction. i don't think it belonged in the box because everything else was antique Chinese artifacts.
And I'm just pretty sure it is made out of bronze but I don't know.

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: Mat on May 16, 2014, 06:23:54 AM

Looks like a bad imitation of a ancient greek Satyr statuette. These are sold in Greece as souvenirs, but it may have been made somewhere else of course.
Mat

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: KC on May 16, 2014, 07:51:02 AM

Agree with Mat.

Here is a page with other interpretations over time
http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/sex-and-single-satyr.html (http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/sex-and-single-satyr.html)

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: mart on May 16, 2014, 10:28:14 AM

Mmmm,, think I will keep my mouth shut !!  ;D

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: cogar on May 17, 2014, 03:47:18 AM

 ::) ::) ::) ;D

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: jordan200023 on May 17, 2014, 04:08:43 AM

hey cogar thanks for for helping out. i have another item if u don't mind. its from Kenya.

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: mart on May 17, 2014, 08:51:40 PM

Can`t read the tape,, how big ?? Are they marked ??  Or,,how do you know they are from Kenya ??

Title: Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
Post by: cogar on May 18, 2014, 05:35:43 AM

Mart, they are appx. 33" long.

Apparently carved horn or ivory tusk.