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Fragment (outer end) of an enriched console

Mid-first century to Flavian (69-96 AD)

Marble, probably Italian marble

Height: 14cm
Width: 19cm
Depth: 11cm

Museum number: S62

Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 114help-vermeule-catalogue-number

On display: Study
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Curatorial note

This console is enriched (top to bottom) with water leaf, beneath a plain surface, a ridged, perhaps beaded, fillet, an enriched baluster-end and acanthus-leaf scroll.

Provenance help-art-provenance

As previous Vermeule 114 (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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 47).

Literature

Tatham: Drawings, 14.

Associated items

S84, comparison
m1186, comparison
S73, comparison


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