3-095-592 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London; photographer: Paul Highnam"/Heritage Images

Cast of one side of a base of one of the six candelabra from Sant' Agnese fuori le Mura, Rome , late 18th or early 19th century. Cast showing one of the six pendant candelabra which were displayed in the middle of the seventeenth century in the church of S. Agnese fuori le mura in Rome. All six candelabra were said to have been found in an excavation near the church. All but one (which had found its way into the Borghese collection) were restored by Lorenzo Cardelli on commission from Pope Clement XIV in 1772. This brought them into the public eye, and casts were made after the restoration. It is decorated with the figure of a winged Erotes whose lower legs turn into elegant scrolling designs, heads of horned rams, and winged creatures.