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Main section of a candelabrum, decorative shaft, or baetylus
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Main section of a candelabrum, decorative shaft, or baetylus
Close-grained Greek marble
Height: 46cm
Circumference: 48cm
Circumference: 48cm
Museum number: M66
On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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The delicately carved, low relief enrichment comprises large, flat acanthus-leaf sheathings between and behind which rise foliate stalks terminating in leaves and pods carved in a graceful/delicate, natural manner.
This fragment is reminiscent of the 'Hildesheimer Silberfund' and may be Augustan period [Jacqueline Thalmann]
This fragment is reminiscent of the 'Hildesheimer Silberfund' and may be Augustan period [Jacqueline Thalmann]
Unrecorded.
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