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Fragmentary leg of a Roman table
Broadly veined alabaster-type marble
Height: 56cm
Museum number: M860
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 244
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 upper parts of the leg of a large table with a panther head and body curving outward with a vertical back support and leg to the beginning of the paw.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no.31.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 2; Drawings, 6.
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