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One of a pair of carved sunflower type rosettes (with Soane no. S6)
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One of a pair of carved sunflower type rosettes (with Soane no. S6)
Marble, probably Luna marble
Height: 30cm, approximately
Museum number: S5
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 170
On display: Study - ceiling
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 rosette and Soane S6 are a non-matching pair. S5 is carved in several relief depths, S6 has deeply cut petals.
Compare the last rosettes, presumably from the carved enrichment of Hadrian's Villa, drawn by Penna and reproduced by Gusman1 .
1Gusman, Villa Hadriana, p. 242, fig. 372-380.
Compare the last rosettes, presumably from the carved enrichment of Hadrian's Villa, drawn by Penna and reproduced by Gusman1 .
1Gusman, Villa Hadriana, p. 242, fig. 372-380.
Provenance
Rome.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 4 (?) and 1 (?).
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