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Fragmentary section of a small carved relief panel
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Fragmentary section of a small carved relief panel
Mid 1st century to late 1st century AD
Luna marble
Height: 29cm
Width: 55cm
Width: 55cm
Museum number: M879
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 153
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
A panel with a moulding strip beneath. The carved area is enriched with scrolled acanthus, sunflower(s), and poppy leaves in conventional arrangement. The moulding at the bottom consists of water-leaf between two fillets. Another fragment in the Soane collection (M567/Vermeule 154) is a continuation of the right of this section.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.33.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 1.
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