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A Roman antefix or cresting fragment
1st century AD
Luna marble
Height: 24cm
Width (base): 21cm, maximum
Width (base): 21cm, maximum
Museum number: S89
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 129
On display: Study
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Curatorial note
This is a section of bordered anthemion enrichment of good early Imperial carving and decorative style.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no.11.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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