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A Roman antefix with stylised honeysuckle palmette-plant within a fillet border.

Luna marble

Height: 20.5cm
Width: 18cm

Museum number: S145

Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 128help-vermeule-catalogue-number

On display: Study
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Provenance help-art-provenance

Rome; collected 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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 11.

Literature

Tatham: Etchings, 14; Drawings, 4.


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