Small fragment of oak-leaf and acorn foliage from a carved frieze(?) or large panel.

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Small fragment of oak-leaf and acorn foliage from a carved frieze(?) or large panel.

Undated

Pentelic marble

Height: 16cm
Width: 15cm
Thickness: 8cm

Museum number: M59

Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 158

On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room

All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.37.

Literature

Tatham: Drawings, 1.

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