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Small section of a candelabrum or decorative shaft
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Small section of a candelabrum or decorative shaft
Italian marble
Height: 8cm
Diameter: 10cm
Circumference: 30.5cm
Diameter: 10cm
Circumference: 30.5cm
Museum number: M86
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 195
Not on display
Curatorial note
Enriched with vine (?) leaves in irregular sheathing about the lower portion and small, rosette-like flowers in the interspacing above1. A larger section of a similar type of shaft - with these five pedaled flowers and heart-shaped leaves - can be found in the Cortile del Belvedere in the Vatican2.
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), M85 (Vermeule 196) and S36 (Vermeule 197).
1 Compare with: The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome: The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, H.S. Jones, 2 vols, Oxford, 1926, p. 223-224, nos. 18-22, esp. 22 for complete examples of these types of shafts.
2 Hans-Ulrich Cain, Römische Marmorkandelaber, 1985, cat no. 95, pl. 88, 1.
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), M85 (Vermeule 196) and S36 (Vermeule 197).
1 Compare with: The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome: The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, H.S. Jones, 2 vols, Oxford, 1926, p. 223-224, nos. 18-22, esp. 22 for complete examples of these types of shafts.
2 Hans-Ulrich Cain, Römische Marmorkandelaber, 1985, cat no. 95, pl. 88, 1.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.19.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 1.
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