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Section of a carved Roman pillar
Luna marble
Height: 68cm
Width: 25cm
Length: 21cm
Width: 25cm
Length: 21cm
Museum number: M709
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 140
On display: Dome Area
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
Enriched on alternate sides with delicately carved vine and olive branches amongst which on the front face is a single small bird.
Comparable with similarly ornamented square pillar-shafts in the Vatican Museums, such as the one discussed under the previous catalogue number, Soane M30 (Vermeule 139) and in this case also particularly its pendant Vatican D4671.
Two other fragments Soane M727 and M481 have similar decoration and are thought to be from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Villa Adriana).
1 W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908. p. 619, no. 467c, pl. 65.
Comparable with similarly ornamented square pillar-shafts in the Vatican Museums, such as the one discussed under the previous catalogue number, Soane M30 (Vermeule 139) and in this case also particularly its pendant Vatican D4671.
Two other fragments Soane M727 and M481 have similar decoration and are thought to be from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Villa Adriana).
1 W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908. p. 619, no. 467c, pl. 65.
Provenance
Shown in the Drg. 1813. l.
Literature
Ward Penkins in Journal of Roman Studies, XLII, 1952, p.30, no 55.
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