A scagliola column imitating breccia gialla

Scagliola
Italy
19th century
h. 102 cm ; d. 32,5 cm (h. 40.16 ; d. 12.8 in.)

Corsi mentions, iIn his 1845 treatise on the pietre antiche, a “very rare” breccia gialla with a “of orange with small white, red, and dark blue markings" — of a kind that may well have served as the model for the present column, which is indeed speckled with rather warm motifs compared to that of traditional breccia.

See Faustino Corsi, Delle pietre antiche, Rome, 1845 and Gabriele Borghini, Marmi antichi, Rome, 2004.