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Fragment of a carved garland of fruit and flowers
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Fragment of a carved garland of fruit and flowers
Undated
Marble, probably Greek marble
Length: 24cm
Museum number: S112
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 173
On display: Study
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Curatorial note
The work is rough with free use of the round and running drill both between the individual parts and in the details of leaves and flowers themselves. From the size and thickness, the character of the backing etc. this is probably a fragment of a secondary decorative panel or a funerary altar.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no.41.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 14.
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