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Fragment of the rim and bowl of a candelabrum, sculptured vase or basin(?)

Coarse-grained Greek marble

Length (inner to outer edge): 26cm
Width: 23cm

Museum number: M1394

Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 264help-vermeule-catalogue-number

On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
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Curatorial note

Enriched on the concave interior with concave fluting leading to a central rosette. Note that one of the images accompanying this entry shows the convex outer face and the other the concave inner face of this fragment.

Provenance help-art-provenance

Rome; collected 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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no. 13.

Literature

Tatham: Drawings, 8.


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