British Museum Author:Henry Ellis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter XII. BRACKETS, AND SUPPORTS OF TRIPOD TABLES. Room II, No. 15. A Bracket or Support of marble, rather more than three feet in height, formed by a d... more »ouble volute, the scrolls of which turn in different directions, and the lower of which serves as a pedestal to a small winged figure of Victory holding a wreath. The Synopsis of the British Museum calls it the keystone of a triumphal arch. The figure of Victory has been so elaborately hollowed out between the two volutes, as, with the exception of the feet and wings, to stand perfectly detached. The head and the left fore-arm of the figure are restorations. This marble was found, with many other similar fragments, in the neighbourhood of Fraseati, twelve miles from Rome. Room II. No. 3. One of the Feet or Supports of an ancient tripod table, composed of a Lion's Head, surrounded by the foliage of the Lotus, which is joined upon the leg of the same animal. It is two feet eight inches high. The pedestal in which it is inserted is modern. These supports of tables were called TpcnreZofyopa (Trapezophoray. 1 See Cicero, Ep. Fam. lib. vii. 23. The Tray ezophoroii mentioned by him in the 27th letter of the Seven/h Book of familiar Epistles, was probably a statue, or figure, made in a onn to support singly a table. Room II. No. 13. A fragment of a Pedestal, or, more properly, of one of the Supports of a tripod bason or table. The central part is composed of the head and neck of a Lion, rising from the stem of a plant, the leaves of which, are expanded like the lotus. On the forehead are the horns of a goat. When perfect, this sculpture probably terminated in the leg of a lion, in the manner similar to another support which has been just described. Our artist has represented this fragment as it stands in th...« less