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Cast of a piece of enriched ovolo moulding from the cornice of the Temple of Vespasian, Rome
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Cast of a piece of enriched ovolo moulding from the cornice of the Temple of Vespasian, Rome
Plaster cast
Museum number: M793
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
The temple of Vespasian in the Forum (on the Capitoline Hill) was in Soane's day known as the Temple of Jupiter Tonans. This ovolo moulding is enriched with flowers and leaves.
Associated items
M1335, another example
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