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Bronze lion, SM BR15. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
A lion
17th or 18th century
Bronze on polished granite pedestal
Height: 5cm
Width: 10cm
Depth: 4cm
Height (plinth): 9cm
Width (plinth): 11cm
Depth (plinth): 5cm
Width: 10cm
Depth: 4cm
Height (plinth): 9cm
Width (plinth): 11cm
Depth (plinth): 5cm
Museum number: BR15
On display: Breakfast Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This small bronze lion belonged to the sculptor John Flaxman and is displayed in a showcase with one Roman Lar figure and another small figure made by Flaxman himself. The group was assembled by Flaxman and the pieces were already on their grey marble bases when they were acquired by Soane. Flaxman and Soane considered this lion to be an antique Roman piece: today it is considered 17th or 18th century, after the antique.
Soane also acquired from Flaxman a cast of this lion, see Soane Museum L79.
Soane also acquired from Flaxman a cast of this lion, see Soane Museum L79.
Provenance
From the collection of the sculptor John Flaxman.
Literature
Helen Dorey 'Flaxman and Soane' in ed. David Bindman, Flaxman: Master of the purest line, exhibition catalogue, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2003, pp.32, 33.
Associated items
L79, copy
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