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Foot of a Roman candelabraum or decorative tripod
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Curatorial note
Beneath a cable-and-rope border this based is carved with three winged lions at the corners and rosettes, leaves, and tendril carved in the concaves between.
Cain illustrates in his work on candelabra several examples of how these fragments were joined together originally1.
1 Hans-Ulrich Cain, Romische Marmorkandelaber, 1985, pl. 85, 5 & 6.
Cain illustrates in his work on candelabra several examples of how these fragments were joined together originally1.
1 Hans-Ulrich Cain, Romische Marmorkandelaber, 1985, pl. 85, 5 & 6.
Rome; collected in Rome by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s. See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no.8.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 12; Drawings, 8.
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