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Fragmentary section of a candelabrum or decorative shaft (baetylus shaped)
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Fragmentary section of a candelabrum or decorative shaft (baetylus shaped)
Pentelic marble
Height: 30cm
Diameter: 17cm
Circumference: 53cm
Diameter: 17cm
Circumference: 53cm
Museum number: M85
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 196
On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room
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Curatorial note
Above a foliate central fillet can be discerned traces of foliage and fruit with flowers, at which a bird pecks; below the centre band, more foliage, Bacchic symbols (?) and paired (?) Bacchic masks on opposite sides of the shaft. There is another fillet band at the bottom.
Soane fragment X34 (Vermeule 200) is part of a base of the kind that supported columns such as this one and S109 (Vermeule 193), X28 (Vermeule 193), M86 (Vermeule 195) and S36 (Vermeule 197).
Soane fragment X34 (Vermeule 200) is part of a base of the kind that supported columns such as this one and S109 (Vermeule 193), X28 (Vermeule 193), M86 (Vermeule 195) and S36 (Vermeule 197).
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no.22.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 8.
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