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Fringe ornament
19th century
Plaster
Museum number: MP59
On display: Monk's Parlour
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 1837 inventory of the collection describes this as 'A piece of modern ornament, plaster'. It is a short length of the same moulding which Soane uses in a much longer run to define the edge of the lower part of the ceiling of the Monk's Parlour (the same interior in which this piece hangs). It is a moulidng that appears in many other Soane buildings. This small cast length in Soane's collection may have been the source, or perhaps it was a first sample.
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