A SET OF EIGHT STONE COLUMNS, each with an Ionic capital, the column formed from six tapering sections, with a stepped base, (one capital replaced, damages), 19th century

These columns are to be dismantled and removed, from Wrotham Park, at the purchaser's expense, by appointment with Christie's.

Details

A SET OF EIGHT STONE COLUMNS, each with an Ionic capital, the column formed from six tapering sections, with a stepped base, (one capital replaced, damages), 19th century
173½in. (440.5cm.) high, approximately
diameter at top of column: 15¼in. (38.5cm.)
diameter at base of column: 18in. (46cm.)
diameter of stepped base: 25½in. (65cm.) (8)

Provenance

Aberglasney, Llangathen, Wales

Lot Essay

The noble Ionic capitals of this elegant Grecian collonade, are inspired by the Propylaea, the entrance doorway to the Athenian Acropolis, and derive from an engraving in James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's, Antiquities of Athens, 1762. The columns were commissioned about 1803 by Thomas Phillips (d. 1840), and formed part of the pedimented portico with which he aggrandised Aberglasney, his 18th century house in Carmarthenshire.

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