A set of four marbelised Tuscan order columns
mid-twentieth century, ex. Wotton House, Buckinghamshire,
constructed from pine and plaster and with a subtle entasis (the bulge on classical columns, creating an illusion of straight-sidedness when viewed from distance) and painted orange/yellow in approximate imitation of Siena marble, lettering to the architrave including the date MCMLXI (1961), can be split into two pairs,
£3,300 the four
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Wotton House is a grade 1 listed building of the English Baroque, the interior redesigned by Sir John Soane in the 1820s after a major fire; these much later columns were removed in the course of improvements,
