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Fragmentary section of a foliate relief panel
69-96 AD
Flavian
Flavian
Italian marble
Height: 35cm
Width: 32cm
Thickness: 10cm
Width: 32cm
Thickness: 10cm
Museum number: S102
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 159
On display: Study
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 large fragment, consisting of the terminal volute of a single acanthus scroll from a scrollwork panel. The work is very close in design and arrangement of foliate pattern to the famous lower outside relief panels of the Ara Pacis (Rome), but the heavier undercutting and the drilled bud indicate the later, Flavian, date.
Provenance
Rome; collected in Rome by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s. See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.31.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 3.
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