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SECTION OF A CARVED TRIANGULAR PILLAR
117-138 AD
Probably Hadrianic
Probably Hadrianic
Marble, probably Italian marble
Height: 62cm
Width (one side): 20cm
Width (one side): 20cm
Museum number: S142
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 136
On display: Study
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Curatorial note
Within standard panel fillet and cyma reversa moulding, bay branches with leaves and berries rise from an acanthus-leaf calyx.
For the type of moulding strips and similarly enriched triangular pillars, compare the examples used as shelf supports in the Museo Chiaramonti of the Vatican1 and a possible triangular pillar or pilaster from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli2.
1 W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908, especially p. 588, no. 424 (B 1-5), pl. 61, and p. 605, No. 448c, pl. 62, etc.
2 P. Gusman, La Villa impériale de Tibur (Villa Hadriana), Paris, 1904, p. 241, fig. 369.
For the type of moulding strips and similarly enriched triangular pillars, compare the examples used as shelf supports in the Museo Chiaramonti of the Vatican1 and a possible triangular pillar or pilaster from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli2.
1 W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908, especially p. 588, no. 424 (B 1-5), pl. 61, and p. 605, No. 448c, pl. 62, etc.
2 P. Gusman, La Villa impériale de Tibur (Villa Hadriana), Paris, 1904, p. 241, fig. 369.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.68.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 10; Drawings, 2.
Associated items
S74, another similar
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