Looking for some ideas on who this architectural sculpture from circa 1900 might have meant to represent.
He has a scrolled shield, helmet with an open beaked bird on top, and there are 2 snakes on the helmet as well;
The building it came from also had several sculptures depicting "Pan" and keystones that resembled Jenny Lind, and 2 panels with a center bowl, vines terminating in griffin type lion heads. The bowl has an "oriental" flavor to it's appearance and has holes around it suggesing it was an incense burner.
I can't see the snakes in the pic, but their existence suggests the Greek Hermes. He was known to hang out with the Dionysians. This piece is obviously heavily Anglicized, so he may really pepresent nothing more than the artists conception of a Greek God.
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