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Fragmentary left end of a decorative relief panel
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Fragmentary left end of a decorative relief panel
Mid 1st century
Pavonazzetto marble
Height: 30cm
Width: 20cm
Width: 20cm
Museum number: M555
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 156
On display: Museum South Passage
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Curatorial note
Beside egg and dart and fillet mouldings, fragment of a swath (the beginning) with fruit, foliage, flowers, and a looping fillet.
Probably mid-first century, or later, work of low quality and in inestimable condition.
A fragment from a series of panels of which a number of whole or partial examples survive
1) In the Lateran Museum
2) Small fragments in the shops on front of the Basilica Aemilia, which are the same style and period as the scrolls on the walls of that structure1 .
3) A fragment on the walls of the Studio of Canova in the Via delle Colonnette, Rome.
1Cp. Gusman AD, I, pl. 12.
Probably mid-first century, or later, work of low quality and in inestimable condition.
A fragment from a series of panels of which a number of whole or partial examples survive
1) In the Lateran Museum
2) Small fragments in the shops on front of the Basilica Aemilia, which are the same style and period as the scrolls on the walls of that structure1 .
3) A fragment on the walls of the Studio of Canova in the Via delle Colonnette, Rome.
1Cp. Gusman AD, I, pl. 12.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.41.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 2.
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