A REGENCY CARRARA MARBLE PEDESTAL PLINTH ATTRIBUTED TO THE CANOVA WORKSHOP FOR THOMAS HOPE CIRCA 1820-1830 With relief decoration in the round of three maenads with thyrsus and a man with wine flask, below characteristic band of squared Greek key band interspersed with flowerheads, stepped base,51.5cm high, top 29.5cm diameterFor an example of very similar Greek key banding please see the column support for The Hope Venus, workshop of Antonio Canova circa 1822, now in the Leeds Art Gallery collection. This band pattern is also used at the top of the plinth base to Canova's Hercules and Lichas in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome. The frieze design seems to be inspired by the second century marble frieze of the Borghese Dancers, now in the Louvre.