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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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Curatorial note
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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