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Fragment from the volute of a Roman Corinthian capital
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Fragment from the volute of a Roman Corinthian capital
117-138 AD
Probably Hadrianic
Probably Hadrianic
Luna marble
Height (sideways, as fixed): 10cm
Width: 6cm
Thickness: 8cm
Width: 6cm
Thickness: 8cm
Museum number: M834
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 54
On display: Dome Area
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
The angle of the carved surface of this flower indicates its origin as a corner volute-rosette such as those still remaining on the Corinthian capital from Hadrian's Villa Soane M137 (Vermeule 45), to the left of the entrance to the Crypt.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no. 65. (Soane Archive)
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 1.
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