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Section of a carved pillar
Luna marble
Height: 82cm
Width: 24cm
Length: 16cm
Width: 24cm
Length: 16cm
Museum number: M727
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 141
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
The enrichment on a similar decorative pillar, built into the wall of the Museo Chiaramonti as a support for a sculpture ledge, is quite close to the odd sides of this fragment1. There are examples in the Antiquario of the Villa Adriana e.g. their no. 419, enriched with ivy leaves and therefore the rectangular counterpart of Soane circular shaft, M1016 (Vermeule 132). On trip through the Vatican magazines Cornelius Vermeule counted about 25 square or rectangular, triangular, and circular shafts which have so many exact parallels at Hadrian's Villa as to be chiefly from that source.
1W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908, I, p. 407, no. E 149 (and descr.), pl. 42.
1W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908, I, p. 407, no. E 149 (and descr.), pl. 42.
Provenance
Unknown. Shown in an 1811 view of the Museum SM P384 and therefore in Soane's collection by that date.
Literature
Ward Penkins, Journal of Roman Studies, XLII, 1952, p.30, no 55.
Associated items
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