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Fragment of a Roman frieze slab with egg and tongue moulding
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Fragment of a Roman frieze slab with egg and tongue moulding
Moulded terracotta
Height: 11cm
Width: 14cm
Width: 14cm
Museum number: M805
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 456
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 fragment of egg and tongue moulding under a plain fillet and a portion of the back surfacing of the frieze slab.
This decorative motive was extremely popular as the top edging of the architectural terracotta relief slabs, especially of the "Campana" type.1
Group II Sima slabs [not clear which author's grouping this refers to]
1 For a well preserved section, see The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal of Rome: The sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, ed. H.S. Jones, Oxford, 1926, pl. 124, GALL SUP VI, nos. 9 b, c, and 12 d.
This decorative motive was extremely popular as the top edging of the architectural terracotta relief slabs, especially of the "Campana" type.1
Group II Sima slabs [not clear which author's grouping this refers to]
1 For a well preserved section, see The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal of Rome: The sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, ed. H.S. Jones, Oxford, 1926, pl. 124, GALL SUP VI, nos. 9 b, c, and 12 d.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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