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Fragment of carved relief: section of a decorated pilaster or an enriched shaft
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Fragment of carved relief: section of a decorated pilaster or an enriched shaft
117-138 AD
Hadrianic, according to Mathea-Förtsch
Hadrianic, according to Mathea-Förtsch
Close-grained Greek marble
Height: 26cm
Width: 26cm
Width: 26cm
Museum number: M577
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 145
On display: Museum South Passage
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 with vine leaves, tendrils and grapes leading on stalks from a vertical central stem and with a small butterfly top left.
Provenance
Rome; collected in Rome 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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.74.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 11; Drawings, 3.
Marion Mathea-Förtsch, Römische Rankenpfeiler und- pilaster, Mainz, 1999, pl. 95, 7, no. 71.
Marion Mathea-Förtsch, Römische Rankenpfeiler und- pilaster, Mainz, 1999, pl. 95, 7, no. 71.
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