拍品 461
461
A MARBLE CANDELABRUM BASE, with relief decoration of the two Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, on either side of an entrance niche each holding up a garland, the sides decorated with rosettes and entwined acanthus leaves, the panels above carved with a pair of lion-griffins, each holding a candelabrum between their joint paws, on the front in addition two amphorae and single lion-griffins with foliate design, lion-headed medallions at each corner, on four female sphinx feet with rosette and a foliate relief decoration in between, the back left plain, circa 1st Century B.C.

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A MARBLE CANDELABRUM BASE, with relief decoration of the two Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, on either side of an entrance niche each holding up a garland, the sides decorated with rosettes and entwined acanthus leaves, the panels above carved with a pair of lion-griffins, each holding a candelabrum between their joint paws, on the front in addition two amphorae and single lion-griffins with foliate design, lion-headed medallions at each corner, on four female sphinx feet with rosette and a foliate relief decoration in between, the back left plain, circa 1st Century B.C.
34½in. (87.6cm.) high; 17½ x 28in. (44.5 x 71cm.)

Condition: cracked along left centre side and back, repair and slight restoration to the two figures

拍品專文

Cf. M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1976, pp. 186-197, nos. 299-300 "Bases such as this were popular in the Roman world, especially in Italy, in the Julio-Claudian through Hadrianic periods of the empire. They supported decorative candelabra or, equally often, merely shafts carved to imitate a vine stem or tree trunk and terminating in a finial such as a pine cone. Such objects were set around the gardens or courtyards of Roman villas ... "