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Fragmentary top and section of a spiral decorative shaft
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Fragmentary top and section of a spiral decorative shaft
Italian marble
Height: 42cm
Width (top): 20cm
Width (top): 20cm
Museum number: M54
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 218
On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room
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Curatorial note
Fluted, spiralled foliage-wrapping terminating in sprouting acanthus leaves, in which, on opposite sides, are rosette flowers and below which birds are perched. The smoothed joints indicate that the ensemble was carved in several sections, perhaps a separate top fixture and certainly a continuation to the shaft.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 5.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 4; Drawings, 5.
Description of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1930, fig. 19.
Description of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1930, fig. 19.
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