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SM M1280. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
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Cast of a piece of antique coffer

Plaster cast

Museum number: M1280

On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

The 1837 inventory of the Museum describes this as a cast of a piece of antique coffer. More recent unpublished notes have suggested that it might be from the Erechtheion or from the Temple of Castor but the source has yet to be definitively identified.


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