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Curatorial note
Within a double fillet moulding on top and two sides, is a double acanthus scroll containing a krater (vase) with a flower below and two birds above1 .
1More stylistic comparisons in Mathea-Förtsch.
1More stylistic comparisons in Mathea-Förtsch.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no.9.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 10; Drawings, 4.
Mathea-Förtsch, pl. 43,2, no. 74.
Mathea-Förtsch, pl. 43,2, no. 74.
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