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A BACCHIC STAGE MASK
Moulded terracotta
Height: 13cm
Width: 14.5cm
Width: 14.5cm
Museum number: M804
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 457
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
A stage mask (of an old Satyr) in profile to the left with remains of the end of a ribbon in front, to the left. Below, a plain, heavy fillet moulding.
For a more complete example of this type of moulding, compare Jones1 and von Rohden2 which shows two masks on the left. The Soane fragment is closest in style and details to a complete example in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris3 .
Group II - Cima slabs.
1 Jones., pl. 124, no.10.
2 H. Von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, vol. IV. 1,2, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit.) pl. XXXIX.
3 Von Rohden and Winnefeld, op. cit., p. 295, pl. CXIV, 1.
For a more complete example of this type of moulding, compare Jones1 and von Rohden2 which shows two masks on the left. The Soane fragment is closest in style and details to a complete example in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris3 .
Group II - Cima slabs.
1 Jones., pl. 124, no.10.
2 H. Von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, vol. IV. 1,2, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit.) pl. XXXIX.
3 Von Rohden and Winnefeld, op. cit., p. 295, pl. CXIV, 1.
Provenance
[Vermeule says it is shown in P384, a view of Soane's Museum drawn by J.M. Gandy in 1811 but this does not seem to be correct]
Literature
H. von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, vol. IV. 1, 2, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit), p. 80.
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