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SM M457. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Justin Piperger
Glazed earthenware ornament (an antefix?)
Not antique.
Glazed terracotta
Height: 18cm
Width: 21cm
Thickness: 12cm
Width: 21cm
Thickness: 12cm
Museum number: M457
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 485
Not on display
Curatorial note
The 1837 AB inventory of Soane's collection described this piece as 'Fragment of an Ornamental Roman Tile, the front enamelled (dug up when forming the Foundations of Trinity Church, St. Marylebone, Earthenware'. Annotations to the entry, in a later curatorial hand [Joseph Bonomi: Curator 1861-78] record that it was dug up '4 feet below the surface of the ground' and the date '18th March 1826').
While considered a classical antiquity by Soane, Cornelius Vermeule's catalogue of the Soane classical antiquities concluded 'this curiosity must be placed with the British later medieval objects'.
While considered a classical antiquity by Soane, Cornelius Vermeule's catalogue of the Soane classical antiquities concluded 'this curiosity must be placed with the British later medieval objects'.
Provenance
Dug up, four feet below the surface of the ground, when forming the Foundations of Trinity Church, St. Marlebone, 18.III.1826.
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