| P number: | P576108 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Pavonazza Italy. Marble Quarries, Carrara, Tuscany. |
| Description: |
Label name: Pavonazza Italy. Alternative name: Pavonazzo. Specimen description: Yellow with gold and dark purple/black veins. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 346 PAVONAZZO. Marble Quarries, Carrara, Tuscany. This large slab is typical of a group of Veined Marbles which are quarried in and around Carrara and Seravezza. Their appearance indicates that they have been formed by the shrinkage and cracking of the Statuary Marble of the Apuan Alps, and the subsequent filling up of the fissures with metallic oxides, thus forming the coloured veins in the white matrix. This variety has a display of golden-coloured and dark purple veins and markings. The matrix has a faint yellowish tint. The name of this group of marbles is said to have originated from the supposed resemblance between the colour of the purple veins and the plumage of a peacock (Pavone). These marbles are only found in hatches, and are sometimes difficult to obtain except in small fragments, there being a tendency for the rock to split along the lines of the veins, and for this reason Pavonazzo Marbles are somewhat rare and expensive. They are chiefly used for internal panelling and inlaid work. The lower part of the staircase of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, was lined with Pavonazzo in 1900, and it may be seen in the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Westminster (1902). It was used in 1895 for the steps in the presbytery of Bristol Cathedral, and in 1878 for those in the chancel of St George's Church, Hatley St George, a village fourteen miles west of Cambridge. A more recent example of its use for decorative work may be seen in Salisbury Cathedral, the base of the monument erected in 1914 to the memory of John Wordsworth, late Bishop of Salisbury, being richly inlaid with Pavonazzo. |
| 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: | 172.70 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Stone and the built heritage (Building Britain) |
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