| P number: | P576139 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Siena, Italy. Montarenti Quarries, near Siena, Tuscany. |
| Description: | Label name: Siena, Italy. Alternative name: Yellow Siena. Specimen description: Yellow with some grey/white veins. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 369 YELLOW SIENA. Montarenti Quarries, near Siena, Tuscany. Presented by the Societe Marbriere d'Avesnes, Gussignies, Nord. This specimen is another example of the Siena Marble of Tuscany. It differs a little from the Convent variety in that the yellow ground-mass is lighter, and some of the veins are transparent. The panels of the pulpit placed in All Souls' Roman Catholic Church Peterborough, in 1912, are composed of this marble. It was also used for decorating the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral, London in 1861. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
| Orientation: | Square |
| Size: | 223.22 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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