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Section of a Roman enriched shaft with ivy leaves, berries, tendrils and branches
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Section of a Roman enriched shaft with ivy leaves, berries, tendrils and branches
117-138 AD
Probably Hadrianic
Probably Hadrianic
Coarse-grained Greek island marble
Height: 30cm
Circumference: 68cm
Diameter: 21cm
Circumference: 68cm
Diameter: 21cm
Museum number: M1016
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 132
On display: Sepulchral Chamber
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
The carved tendrils and branches depicted on this fragment all spring from two central stems which rise in opposite directions from a meeting point below the present bottom.
A shaft fragment with enrichment in the style of this example has been found at the Emperor Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Villa Adriana).1 Another shaft in this style supports the bust of Lucius Verus in the Canopus of the Villa Torlonia-Albani in Rome.
1 P. Gusman, La Villa impériale de Tibur (Villa Hadriana), Paris, 1904, p. 250, fig. 410; also/or nos. 442, 451, etc. in the Antiquario at the villa.
A shaft fragment with enrichment in the style of this example has been found at the Emperor Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Villa Adriana).1 Another shaft in this style supports the bust of Lucius Verus in the Canopus of the Villa Torlonia-Albani in Rome.
1 P. Gusman, La Villa impériale de Tibur (Villa Hadriana), Paris, 1904, p. 250, fig. 410; also/or nos. 442, 451, etc. in the Antiquario at the villa.
Provenance
In Soane's collection by 1811 when it is shown in a view of the Dome Area by Joseph Michael Gandy.
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