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The paw of a sphinx-type foot/base from the support/ leg of a piece of Roman furniture
Pentelic marble
Width: 10.5cm
Length: 24cm
Length: 24cm
Museum number: S43
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 255
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
This is a clawed paw on a large, thick base area; judging from the shape of the paw and the size of the slab which it joins, it is probably from an ensemble similar to Soane M801 (Vermeule no. 249).
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 51.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 14.
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