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Fragment of ancient Roman carved foliage: a flower
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Curatorial note
A rosette type petalled flower set at an angle to a partly finished top (?) surface; perhaps from the decorative carving of an altar.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no.64.
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