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Fragment of an unidentified Roman Composite pilaster capital, perhaps from the Villa Adriana at Tivoli.
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Fragment of an unidentified Roman Composite pilaster capital, perhaps from the Villa Adriana at Tivoli.
117-138 AD
Hadrianic. Susan Walker suggests a date of after the mid second century AD
Hadrianic. Susan Walker suggests a date of after the mid second century AD
Luna marble
Height: 26cm
Width: 32cm
Thickness: 13cm
Width: 32cm
Thickness: 13cm
Museum number: M22
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 65
On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room
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Curatorial note
Below a concave fillet abacus moulding along the top edge are the remains of a left hand, lyre shaped corner volute leading to bunched foliage between profiled acanthus leaves. Below is a large egg and dart ovolo moulding with acanthus leaves covering the remaining corner.
This capital, of Roman provenance from its inclusion amongst the items collected by Tatham, belongs to the school of another in Soane's collection (M23/Vermeule 64) and also has exact parallels in Rome itself; similar fragments in the Antiquario at the Villa Adriana at Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa) point to a similar origin for this piece.
This capital, of Roman provenance from its inclusion amongst the items collected by Tatham, belongs to the school of another in Soane's collection (M23/Vermeule 64) and also has exact parallels in Rome itself; similar fragments in the Antiquario at the Villa Adriana at Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa) point to a similar origin for this piece.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no.5.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, Frontispiece; Drawings, 8.
Susan Walker, 'Corinthian Capitals with Ringed Voids', Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1979, no. 11, fig. 21, pp.120-21.
Susan Walker, 'Corinthian Capitals with Ringed Voids', Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1979, no. 11, fig. 21, pp.120-21.
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