TWO ITALIAN MARMO ROSSO AND ORMOLU REDUCTIONS OF TRAJAN'S COLUMN

ONE SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY AND ONE OF A LATER DATE, FIGURE OF TRAJAN ASSOCIATED

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TWO ITALIAN MARMO ROSSO AND ORMOLU REDUCTIONS OF TRAJAN'S COLUMN
One Second Quarter 19th Century and one of a later date, figure of Trajan associated
Each of typical form, one surmounted with a figure of St. Peter, the other with a figure of Trajan, each on a square black marble base
36in. (91.5cm.) high, one; 35in. (89cm.) high, the other (2)

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The Emperor Trajan's monumental column commemorating his Dacian campaigns is one of Rome's most celebrated antiquities; such models, executed in bronze or colourful marbles have been popular since the l8th century. The most famous copy is the two metre high example executed by Luigi Valadier in marble, granite, lapis lazuli, gilt-bronze and silver-gilt, completed in 1780 and preserved in the Schatzkammer of the Residenz in Munich (P. Morel et al. La Colonna Traiana, Rome, 1988; F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, London, 1981, p. 21, fig. 26). Later the column would inspire Napoleon to commemorate the victories of La Grande Armée with a full scale copy in the Place Vendôme, Paris.