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Cast of a piece of antique foliage

Plaster cast

Museum number: M785

On display: Sepulchral Chamber
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 cast is from an unknown, probably Roman, relief of a bunch of (oak, acanthus and ivy?) leaves tied together. The various fixing holes indicate that this cast has been hung in three different orientations at different times.


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