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Fragment of the handle of a large basin or bowl
Grey Greek island marble
Length (outside curve): 43cm
Museum number: DR18
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 272
Not on display
Curatorial note
A fragment of the base(?) of the handle of a giant vase or basin, in the form of an acanthus stem with leaf wrapping springing from a joint.
For a large vase with handles of this sort, compare the celebrated 'Warwick' (Castle) Vase, a krater discovered in 1771 at the Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) at Tivoli and restored by Piranesi1 . This Soane piece is very like fragment Villa Adriana no. 862, the section close to the base of a Warwick Vase-type handle, in the Antiquario at the Villa Adriana.
1 G.B. Piranesi, Vasi, candelabri, cippi, carcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi, fol, Rome, 1779, (II) pls. 2-4 (Wilton-Ely 889, 890, 891); A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, trans. C.A.M. Fennell, Cambridge, 1882, p. 663, no. 1 with full history; S. Reinach, Répertoire de Reliefs Grecs et Romains, Paris, 1909-12, Vol III, p. 532, after Moses, Vases, pl. 37.
For a large vase with handles of this sort, compare the celebrated 'Warwick' (Castle) Vase, a krater discovered in 1771 at the Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) at Tivoli and restored by Piranesi1 . This Soane piece is very like fragment Villa Adriana no. 862, the section close to the base of a Warwick Vase-type handle, in the Antiquario at the Villa Adriana.
1 G.B. Piranesi, Vasi, candelabri, cippi, carcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi, fol, Rome, 1779, (II) pls. 2-4 (Wilton-Ely 889, 890, 891); A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, trans. C.A.M. Fennell, Cambridge, 1882, p. 663, no. 1 with full history; S. Reinach, Répertoire de Reliefs Grecs et Romains, Paris, 1909-12, Vol III, p. 532, after Moses, Vases, pl. 37.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no. 59.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 12; Drawings, 11.
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