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Fragment of a Roman carved pilaster
117-138 AD
Hadrianic, according to Mathea-Förtsch
Hadrianic, according to Mathea-Förtsch
Pentelic marble
Height: 23cm
Width: 22.5cm
Width: 22.5cm
Museum number: S82
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 147
On display: Study
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Curatorial note
This pilaster fragment is carved with leaves and a bird grasping vine stems which lead to a central thyrsos-like trunk.
Mathea-Förtsch states that several fragments at the Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) at Tivoli have exactly the same leaf pattern and carving and even though the fragments cannot be joined, they probably belong to the same object.
Mathea-Förtsch states that several fragments at the Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) at Tivoli have exactly the same leaf pattern and carving and even though the fragments cannot be joined, they probably belong to the same object.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.75.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 11; Drawings, 3.
Marion Mathea-Förtsch, Römische Rankenpfeiler und- pilaster, Mainz, 1999, pl. 93,4, no. 73.
Marion Mathea-Förtsch, Römische Rankenpfeiler und- pilaster, Mainz, 1999, pl. 93,4, no. 73.
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