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Upper end of an enriched Roman console
Mid-first century to Flavian (69-96 AD)
Marble, probably Italian marble
Height: 12cm
Width: 26cm
Depth: 12cm
Width: 26cm
Depth: 12cm
Museum number: S73
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 113
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 console is enriched, below a broader fillet-space than on SM M1186, with waterleaf (between the reversed points of which are small "dentils" on a thin fillet line), enriched baluster and acanthus-leaf scroll.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 47.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 14.
Associated items
M1186, comparison
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