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Fragment of the bowl and handle of a vase
Carved alabaster
Height: 26cm
Width: 16cm
Thickness: 4cm
Width: 16cm
Thickness: 4cm
Museum number: M572
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 268
On display: Museum South Passage
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Curatorial note
The surface below the rim of this fragment is smooth and at the bulge at the start of the bottom are four stumps of large double handles. The body is carved in progressive thickness from top to bottom and is smooth inside.
For another fragment of a similar vase with the same provenance see SM M1020 (Vermeule 269).
For another fragment of a similar vase with the same provenance see SM M1020 (Vermeule 269).
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 3, no. 11 and Uncatalogued fragments, p. 8.
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