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Base of the foot of a piece of Roman furniture: the paw of a lion-type support
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Base of the foot of a piece of Roman furniture: the paw of a lion-type support
Pavonazzetto marble
Height: 10cm
Width: 13cm
Length: 20cm
Width: 13cm
Length: 20cm
Museum number: S57
On display: Study
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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The veining of the marble and the thickness of the paw indicate that this fragment was the base of a table-support. Antique peg-holes remaining at joints confirm that heavy marble furniture was sectioned together by means of deeply sunk iron pegs or clamps, in the same way that candelabrum shafts were in sections joined together.
Unrecorded.
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