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Tall Italian Gold Gilded Vintage Pedestal w/ Marble Top
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$1975 (negotiable)
item #431703
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Tall Italian Gold Gilded Vintage Pedestal
with separate matching marble top. Two fluted columns support the carved wooden top and matching piece of marble. Four Italian paw feet. Matching front and back; sides. 45.5”H, 15”W on base, 12.5”W on top, 8”D. In Classical architecture, a pedestal is a support or base for a column, statue, vase, or obelisk. Such a pedestal may be square, octagonal, or circular. The name is also given to the vertical members that divide the sections of a balustrade. A single pedestal may also support a group of columns, or colonnade. A pedestal is divided into three parts, from bottom to top: the plinth (or foot), the die (or dado), and the cornice (cap, cap mold, or surbase).
The pedestal was first employed by the architects of ancient Rome to make a single column look more imposing; it was also featured in triumphal arches. In Renaissance Italy, architectural theorists decreed that the pedestal was an integral part of the order (see order) of the column and entablature and inseparable from it. At the same time, specific rules were established concerning the proportional height of pedestal to column: the higher the column is, the higher the pedestal must be.
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