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FRAGMENT OF THE RIM AND BOWL OF A VASE
Greek island marble
Height: 20cm
Width: 32cm
Thickness: 12cm
Width: 32cm
Thickness: 12cm
Museum number: M866
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 265
On display: Dome Area
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Curatorial note
The outcurling lip and part of the body of a large marble krater (not a basin), or bowl. The inside of the lip is enriched with convex piped fluting and bead and reel moulding. About 5 cm from the edge of the lip on the inside there is a thickening step which forms the thickened inside of the bowl; the outside is enriched with a guilloche between bead moulding, and the start of large convex fluting about the body.
Provenance
Rome; collected 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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no. 78.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 1.
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