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Fragment of mosaic floor pavement
2nd century AD
Roman
Roman
Marble black and white tesserae
Height: 51cm
Length: 52cm
Length: 52cm
Museum number: A73
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 491
On display: Lobby to the Breakfast Room
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
A section of mosaic floor pavement consisting of two (one fragmentary) black eight-petalled flowers set in white squares bordered by two and three black strips running off at the ends. At the edges of the long side are two broader strips in black running from frame to frame, beyond which at one end more white is visible. Note that the tesserae (the individual marble squares) are small.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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