CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN TERRACOTTA TRIANGULAR CANDELABRA BASE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Each panel depicting, in shallow relief, a female draped figure with hair bound with fillet, one with billowing drapery walking to the right holding an object in right hand, one standing with himation wrapped around the chest, head turned to the right, holding a phiale in left hand and the forelegs of a lamb in her right, and another walking to the right, a staff balanced on her left shoulder with a hare hanging off one end, and a fowl (?) the other, the right hand grasping the hind legs of a boar, attachment hole at top
18 ¼ in. (46.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Han Coray collection, acquired prior to 1960; and thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

217 Werke aus der Sammlung Han Coray, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 26 April-2 August 1970, no. 162.

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PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue; 217 Werke aus der Sammlung Han Coray, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 1970, no. 162.

Candelabra stands such as this, more commonly in marble, would have been finished with a bronze candle stand and possibly feet as well. They are likely to have been used in pairs flanking a doorway or entrance. For similar in marble cf. 'Triangular Base with Reliefs', Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, inv. no. SC 1921:17-1.

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