Antique Red Marble Pedestal In Neo-greek Taste. XIXth Century.

PALATIAL PURPLE- Antique Red marble pedestal in the form of a Doric column with molded base and quadrangular counter-plinth resting on powerful lion claw feet in gilded and chiseled bronze. Parisian work from the second half of the 19th century, in Neo-Greek taste. Around 1860-1880. With sumptuous majesty, our pedestal draws from Greco-Roman Antiquity materials, form, order and architectural repertoire. Made in Antique Red marble, it has a column with a canned barrel surmounted by a Doric capital; a frieze, traversed by triglyphs alternating with metopes left bare, soberly animates astragalus and gorget. Molded with grooves on a base of square section, it rests on a quadrangular counter-plinth magnified by gilded bronze ornamentation chiseled with lion's claw feet forming a support.