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Section of a candelabrum, decorative shaft, or baetylus
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Curatorial note
Enriched with two orders of palm-leaf sheathing above which rise carved stems with bay leaves and berries.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters.
Literature
Tatham: see refs. for Vermeule 190.
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