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Fragment from a relief panel: a fruit and foliage
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Fragment from a relief panel: a fruit and foliage
Pentelic marble
Height: 17cm
Width: 16cm
Width: 16cm
Museum number: M571
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 166
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
Fragment, probably from the centre near the bottom of the curve, of a garland-decorated panel, of considerable size judging from the fruit. Compare also the fragment of a panel with oranges, lemons, and foliage, etc. in the Lateran1.
1Gusman, AD, I, pl. 41.
1Gusman, AD, I, pl. 41.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.36.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 1.
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