Piranesi candelabrum incorporating fragments of Roman marble
On display
Details
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Title
Piranesi candelabrum incorporating fragments of Roman marble
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Artist/maker
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) (designer) -
Associated place
Italy (place of creation) -
Date
18th - 19th century (1701 - 1900) -
Material and technique
marble, carved
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Object type
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Dimensions
230 x 69 x 80.5 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Roger Newdigate, 1776.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 21 | Greek and Roman Sculpture -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
ANMichaelis.241
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Further reading
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), no. 77
Katherine Wodehouse (general editor), The Ashmolean Museum Crossing Cultures Crossing Time (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014), p.92, illus. p.92
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