A Marble Candelabrum, Roman Imperial, 1st/2nd Century A.D.

with square base decorated in relief on each side with a rosette flanked by horizontal palmettes and surmounted by a broad calyx with four inward-curving leaves, the double-helix shaft composed of two entwined acanthus stalks each culminating in a large pine cone or artichoke, the conjoined fruits flanked by rosettes.

Joseph Brummer, New York (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Part III of the Art Collection belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer, June 9th, 1949, no. 551 (as "Italo-Byzantine..., X-XI Century")
Blumka Gallery, New York, early 1960s
Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Blumka Gallery, New York, 1990

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, 1977

2000 Years of Sculpture, from the Classical Age to the Baroque: The Mark Lansburgh Collection, Santa Barbara, Cal., 1977, no. 12, illus. (as 17th Century Venetian)

Shaft repaired from many pieces and with small areas of restoration, some palmettes fragmentary, several ends of acanthus leaves below fruits formerly restored in marble , tops of fruits restored in plaster(?), rosettes below fruits with all petals either restored or formerly restored, in same area surface shows signs of acid cleaning, base (not belonging) with weathered acanthus leaves and repolished sides below, feet restored, separately made ring between base and shaft probably not ancient.
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For related examples and a discussion of this type of candelabra see E. Berger, ed., Antike Kunstwerke aus der Sammlung Ludwig. III Skulpturen, Mainz am Rhein, 1990, no. 265, pp. 509-516. Also see C. Vermeule et al., Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1977, p. 52, no. 76, and Chr. Breuer, Antike Skulpturen. Bestandskatalog des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 2001, no. 7, figs. 41-42, from the villa of Q. Voconius Pollio.