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THE COLUMNS 17TH/18TH CENTURY, THE CAPITALS PROBABLY 16TH CENTURY
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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN VIOLET BRECCIA MARBLE COLUMNS
THE COLUMNS 17TH/18TH CENTURY, THE CAPITALS PROBABLY 16TH CENTURY
Each with associated white marble Ionic capital and socle, one capital with platform to top, minor differences in the carving of the capitals
93 ¾ in. (238 cm.) high, the one with the platform slightly taller; each base 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) square
THE COLUMNS 17TH/18TH CENTURY, THE CAPITALS PROBABLY 16TH CENTURY
Each with associated white marble Ionic capital and socle, one capital with platform to top, minor differences in the carving of the capitals
93 ¾ in. (238 cm.) high, the one with the platform slightly taller; each base 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) square
Provenance
Probably purchased by Edward James in the early 1930s for 35 Wimpole Street, London (a set of six, two of which remain at West Dean); three photographed in the Tent Room circa 1933.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous, Edinburgh, 2016, p. 207.
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