Pilasters or Termini in cipollino – 20th century.
Green cipollino marble, onyx from Circeo, white marble from Carrara.
Tuscany.
Late 19th century — early 20th century.
H. 123 ; L. 36 ; D. 26 cm.
The shaft of each pilaster or Terminus is made of cipollino marble from the Apuan Alps, northwest of Tuscany. Here in a bright, lavish green, in a symmetrical pattern. Each shaft is surrounded by yellow onyx from Circeo, crowned with a baguette and a cymatium in Carrara marble, both separated by a listel also in cipollino, whose pattern echoes that of the shaft. It is all supported by an astragal, an inverted doucine, a baguette and a plinth, all in white blue-veined Carrara marble.
