A ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF COLUMN, CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D. | A Roman Marble Relief Column

carved all around with vegetal motifs in two registers separated by a plain raised band, the lower part with a vine and two birds picking grapes, the upper part with an ivy plant.

Danish private collection, acquired in the 1950s/1970s, by repute
Bruun-Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Online sale no. 1642, October 17th, 2016, no. 34, illus.
acquired by the present owner from the above

Condition consistent all around. Tool marks visible especially in upper register. Areas of staining. Base and central raised band lightly chipped and abraded. Underside of column has an uneven shallow fragmentary protrusion in the middle, probably what remains of a tenon made for insertion into a base. Column now rests into modern oblong-shaped marble base.
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For a related example at the Musée Saint-Pierre in Vienne see E. Will, La sculpture romaine du Musée lapidaire de Vienne, 1952, no. 106, and H. Walter, La colonne ciselée dans la Gaule romaine, no. 57, pl. IX: http://nesp.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/printnesp.aspx?ID=VIE%20306.