An exquisite image of the Pagan Nature God, Pan, playing pan pipes - dancing at his feet is a young faun and a cherub - really lovely. "Pan" was sculpted by Countess Feodora Gleichen.
Lady Feodora Georgina Maud Gleichen (1861 - 1922, London) was a British sculptress of figures and portrait busts and designer of decorative objects. Gleichen studied art in her father's studio at St James's and later with Alphonse Legros at the Slade School of Art. She associated with leading artists such as Sir George Frampton, sculptor of the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. She completed her studies in Rome in 1891 and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1892 and at the New Dudley Gallery. Shortly before her death, she was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1922 and was later posthumously made the first woman member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. (Wikipedia)
Pan, in Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, as well as the companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism. In Roman religion and myth, Pan's counterpart was Faunus, a nature god who was the father of Bona Dea, sometimes identified as Fauna. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Pan became a significant figure in the Romantic movement of western Europe, and also in the 20th-century Neopagan movement. (Wikipedia)