New Year, New Life

By jenpedler

Atlas Junior?

There are several of these cherubs supporting the door pillars on the flats in Torrington Place. I'm not sure what they should be called.
I'm very fond of the word caryatid but that applies to female figures serving as architectural supports. The male equivalent is an atlas or telamon. Nothing tells me what the junior equivalent of either is so, as these look like boys to me, I've decided to title this 'Atlas Junior' but, if they are girls they should perhaps be called baby caryatids. Or maybe there's an architectural term for cherubs serving as architectural supports that I've never heard of?

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