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Cinerary vase decorated with candelabra and garlands
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Cinerary vase decorated with candelabra and garlands
Pentelic marble
Height (excluding square base): 63cm
Height (excluding lid and square base): 49cm
Height (pedestal and base): 14cm
Height (frieze): 28cm
Circumference (lid): 99cm
Circumference: 101cm, maximum
Height (excluding lid and square base): 49cm
Height (pedestal and base): 14cm
Height (frieze): 28cm
Circumference (lid): 99cm
Circumference: 101cm, maximum
Museum number: M776
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 351
On display: Dome Area
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
On the body, between plain fillet and moulding, three candelabra from which hang the filleted garlands of fruit and flowers. In the area formed by the drape of the long garland between the widely spaced candelabra is a plain inscription plate within cyma and fillet moulding. In the areas above the other two garlands, there a pair of birds (perhaps doves or pigeons tussel with a grasshopper and a lizard; from below the garlands another pair of birds peck at the fruit and flowers. The birds appear to be pigeons or perhaps doves.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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