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A piece of ‘brain stone’, a kind of petrified coral

Museum number: M769

On display: Dome Area
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

This specimen is displayed with a collection of items designed to demonstrate the close connection between architectural or man-made sculptural forms and natural forms with this piece of ‘brain coral’ alongside casts of feet, and ribbon mouldings which resemble vertebrae.


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