This marble column, although it has many of the distinctive features of the original 1st century work, was probably commissioned by a great tourist in the mid-18th century.
The classic lines and structure of the tapering triangular shape are complemented
decorated surfaces and corner capitals in the form of rams' heads. This column, like other objects Rose Uniacke brought to England from the Continent, ended up in an English country house - in this case in the collection of the 20th-century figurative artist Anthony Fry.
Of tapering triangular shape, the top with three rams' heads at each corner; each flat surface carved with finely rendered tendrils of leaf and flower shoots growing from ferns in full foliage. The base has a paw at each corner. Various old areas of restoration and a large rectangular infill on one surface, apparently of the same period as the original carving.