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Fragment of the bowl of a large vase (?)
Carved alabaster
Height: 16cm
Width: 17cm
Width: 17cm
Museum number: M596
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 271
On display: Museum South Passage
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Curatorial note
This fragment consists of three courses of convex fluting and is probably from the bottom of the bowl of a large marble krater, such as the one in the forecourt of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome1.
1 T. Ashby, Papers of the British School at Rome, II, p. 62, no. 141, drawn by Coner in the Soane Museum Codex Coner sketch-book SM Vol. 115; see also G.B. Piranesi, Vasi, candelabri, cippi, carcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi, fol, Rome, 1779, pl. 37, (Wilton-Ely 922).
1 T. Ashby, Papers of the British School at Rome, II, p. 62, no. 141, drawn by Coner in the Soane Museum Codex Coner sketch-book SM Vol. 115; see also G.B. Piranesi, Vasi, candelabri, cippi, carcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi, fol, Rome, 1779, pl. 37, (Wilton-Ely 922).
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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