A Marble Base and Candelabrum Shaft with Relief Decoration , Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.

comprising a square base decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves radiating down from a central dowel hole for insertion of a shaft, and a tapering candelabrum shaft carved in relief in the lower register with scrolling vegetation and in the upper with an oak branch bearing acorns and another plant with clusters of berries, birds in the foliage.

Jandolo et Tavazzi - Galerie Sangiorgi, Rome, Catalogue de la vente apres décès de Mr Joachim Ferroni, April 14th- 22nd, 1909
Emmo von Benningsen, Schloss Kolkum, Germany, acquired in Rome in the above sale
Graf and Marquis von Villers, circa 1930
by descent to the present owner in 1951

Base: leaves chipped on three corners, surface somewhat worn and very dirty. Shaft: repaired above the middle and across the top, top partially burned. ornamentation worn, chipped, and encrusted overall.
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