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Fragment of an enriched pilaster
Italian marble
Height: 32cm
Width: 38cm
Width: 38cm
Museum number: M1169
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 144
On display: Museum South Passage
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
Enriched with ivy leaves and berries on stalks leading left and right from a vertical central stem between an outer edge moulding.
Provenance
Rome; collected in Rome by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s. See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.76.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 11; Drawings, 3.
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