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Fragment (outer end) of an enriched console
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Fragment (outer end) of an enriched console
Mid-first century to Flavian (69-96 AD)
Marble, probably Italian marble
Height: 14cm
Width: 19cm
Depth: 11cm
Width: 19cm
Depth: 11cm
Museum number: S62
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 114
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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Curatorial note
This console is enriched (top to bottom) with water leaf, beneath a plain surface, a ridged, perhaps beaded, fillet, an enriched baluster-end and acanthus-leaf scroll.
Provenance
As previous Vermeule 114 (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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 47).
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 14.
Associated items
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