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Fragment of the bottom of a decorative support for a Roman chair or small table
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Curatorial note
This pair of clawed feet or paws, set together on a heavy base, are probably from a piece of furniture supported by decorative sphinxes or lion-griffins such as the monumental "Bacchic" chair in the Louvre, composed from various antique fragments1.
1 P. Gusman, L' Art décoratif de Roma de la fin de la république au IV siécle, 2 vols, Paris, 1910, II, pl. 76.
1 P. Gusman, L' Art décoratif de Roma de la fin de la république au IV siécle, 2 vols, Paris, 1910, II, pl. 76.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no. 54. (Soane Archive).
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 12; Drawings, 2.
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