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Roman krater vase decorated with low-relief vertical fluting and acanthus with date palm foliage below. The pair of handles set opposite each other have no connecting strip between their bases. This is an interesting variant of the usual small garden-type kraters.
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Roman krater vase decorated with low-relief vertical fluting and acanthus with date palm foliage below. The pair of handles set opposite each other have no connecting strip between their bases. This is an interesting variant of the usual small garden-type kraters.
Coarse-grained Greek island marble
Height (including lid and square base): 40cm
Height (bottom of square base to top of vessel): 27 cm
Diameter: 25cm
Height (bottom of square base to top of vessel): 27 cm
Diameter: 25cm
Museum number: M929
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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Unrecorded.
Literature
Description of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1930, p.82, fig.48 (left centre rear).
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