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Fragment of the rim and bowl of a candelabrum, sculptured vase or basin(?)
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Fragment of the rim and bowl of a candelabrum, sculptured vase or basin(?)
Coarse-grained Greek marble
Length (inner to outer edge): 26cm
Width: 23cm
Width: 23cm
Museum number: M1394
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 264
On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
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
Enriched on the concave interior with concave fluting leading to a central rosette. Note that one of the images accompanying this entry shows the convex outer face and the other the concave inner face of this fragment.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no. 13.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 8.
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