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Top section of a carved pilaster
117-138 AD
Hadrianic, according to Mathea-Förtsch
Hadrianic, according to Mathea-Förtsch
Greek marble, probably Pentelic marble
Height: 57cm
Width: 36.5cm
Thickness: 7cm
Width: 36.5cm
Thickness: 7cm
Museum number: S113
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 143
On display: Study
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Curatorial note
Within a double fillet moulding on top and two sides, is a double acanthus scroll containing a fluted krater (vase) with a flower below and two birds above1 .
1More stylistic comparisons in Mathea-Förtsch.
1More stylistic comparisons in Mathea-Förtsch.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no.9.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 10; Drawings, 4.
Marion Mathea-Förtsch, Römische Rankenpfeiler und- pilaster, Mainz, 1999, pl. 43,2, no. 74.
Marion Mathea-Förtsch, Römische Rankenpfeiler und- pilaster, Mainz, 1999, pl. 43,2, no. 74.
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