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Section of the figurated, carved shaft of an antique candelabrum
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Section of the figurated, carved shaft of an antique candelabrum
193-235 AD
Possibly Severan.
Possibly Severan.
Luna marble
Height: 33cm
Diameter: 21cm
Circumference: 66cm
Diameter: 21cm
Circumference: 66cm
Museum number: X120
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 135
On display: Museum South Passage
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Curatorial note
This fragment is enriched with rough, deeply shadowed carving, with oak leaves, acorns, and vine and grapes springing in either direction from a vase on which are carved convex volutes. There are several birds in the foliage, pecking at the grapes, and two nude figures - one depicting a long-faced, balding, bearded man.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.6.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 2.
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