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Section of Roman base moulding
27 BC-14 AD
Augustan
Augustan
Italian marble
Height: 14cm
Width: 34cm
Thickness: 13.7cm
Width: 34cm
Thickness: 13.7cm
Museum number: M1037
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 72
Not on display
Curatorial note
The carved enrichment consists (from top to bottom as originally designed) of ogee base moulding with alternately varied honeysuckle detail, cavetto with fluting, and torus moulding with guilloche.
A section of the base moulding of an altar (?) or skirting of a wall, of beautiful detailed Augustan work, comparable with the Ara Pacis, Rome (as on, for example, the base of the podium1 ).
1 G. Moretti, L'Ara Pacis Augustae p. 187, fig. 150.
A section of the base moulding of an altar (?) or skirting of a wall, of beautiful detailed Augustan work, comparable with the Ara Pacis, Rome (as on, for example, the base of the podium1 ).
1 G. Moretti, L'Ara Pacis Augustae p. 187, fig. 150.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
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