[HB2.57L]                                                             [HB2.57]							57
                                                                      
Base of                                                               		No 88. continued
Shaft                                                                 
of No 88	[diagram]	Joint                                              [drawing]	The line connecting the
				Base of shaft                                                     			diamond to leaf is a mere
				Opposite                                                          				incision . The leaf has
				Joint                                                             				  a boss in centre
                                                                      				    with two
				peculiarly flat                                                   				     incisions to
				and exquisite [?]                                                 				          the lobes
				& ribbed leaf like                                                
				Doges palace                                                      			        Compare
                                                                      			     with this
The cavetto peculiarly flat. and the roll with                        			Screen at St Marks
an exquisite ridged and ribbed leaf like that                         
of Doges palace: The whole lower section                              			a joint
of this base. below the lower joint is                                
common to the pils which are cch.                                     			b joint
                                                                      
cch [diagram]		[diagram]                                              This is the capital on the left . in that on
                                                                        the right  the change of the old pure spiral
 and have the same abaci as shafts                                    as the angle into the [curved?] shell leaf which
Now it is a question whether these pils                               finally expands into the Pisani palaces
 and the lower base of the shaft may not                                pattern - is peculiarly marked.
 have been added. and the upper portion                               I suspect in this shaft. both the abacus. & the
 be original shaft base                                               space between the joints  a. b above. which
   and above  & abaci later                                           are of red Verona marble. have been added,
    for the heads & shafts are sugary                                 the capital & shaft are of the sugary early early
     marble & abaci & ab. red verona                                     white marble & the interfaced pieces are
                                                                      unmistakably of the date of the screen of
                                                                      St Marks - which is decorated in precisely
                                                                          the same manner: and the upper portion of
                                                                           the shaft base as opposite . is doubtless added
                                                                      				But vid. opp in same way

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