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AN ITALIAN BRONZE AND PARCEL GILT MODEL OF TRAJAN'S COLUMN
Lot 295

AN ITALIAN BRONZE AND PARCEL GILT MODEL OF TRAJAN'S COLUMN

CIRCA 1820

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AN ITALIAN BRONZE AND PARCEL GILT MODEL OF TRAJAN'S COLUMN
CIRCA 1820
After the Antique, with associated finial, eagles to angles of plinth lacking, on a square marmo verdi base
33¾in. (85.7cm.) high overall

Specialist note

Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel Vergoldete Bronzen Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich, 1986. A column by Wilhelm Hopfgarten and Benjamin Ludwig Jollage illustrated p.310 and p.404, plate 5.19.8.
The spiral relief frieze of the commemorative column records the military acheivements of Trajan's Dacian campaigns.
Haskell and Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale 1981. p.21. Fig 26.