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Fragment of the base of an engaged column
117-138 AD
Hadrianic
Hadrianic
Luna marble
Height: 21cm
Width: 21cm
Thickness: 9cm
Width: 21cm
Thickness: 9cm
Museum number: M573
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 79
Not on display
Curatorial note
In its present state the enrichment from top to bottom comprises: fluted cavetto, rolled rope fillet between plain fillets, fluted cavetto, fillet, guilloche stopped at the right edge, and remains of a plain base section at the bottom.
From Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, this fragment may be compared with identical circular column bases in situ in the Peristyle Court of that complex; a particularly well preserved example may be recognised by the fact that a mutilated block of the enriched (figured?) frieze is set on its top1 .
1 Compare Chillman, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, IV, 1924, p. 109, pl. LII, 3, from the Great Hall of the Casino or Aedicula. See also Charlotte Schreiter, 1995, p. 249, fig.199, no. 209.
From Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, this fragment may be compared with identical circular column bases in situ in the Peristyle Court of that complex; a particularly well preserved example may be recognised by the fact that a mutilated block of the enriched (figured?) frieze is set on its top1 .
1 Compare Chillman, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, IV, 1924, p. 109, pl. LII, 3, from the Great Hall of the Casino or Aedicula. See also Charlotte Schreiter, 1995, p. 249, fig.199, no. 209.
Provenance
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no.7.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 8.
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