Object Detail
Description
Warwick vase. urn vase, classical shape on square base, relief decoration of figures. Based on the Warwick vase, an ancient Roman vase with Bacchic ornament that was discovered at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli about 1771 by Gavin Hamilton, a Scottish painter-antiquarian and art dealer in Rome. The vase was found in the silt of a marshy pond at the low point of the villa's extensive grounds, where Hamilton had obtained excavation rights and proceeded to drain the area. Hamilton sold the fragments to Sir William Hamilton, British envoy at the court of Naples from whose well-known collection it passed to his nephew George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick where it caused a sensation.
Maker and role
manufacturer: unknown
Production place
England
Production date
circa 1850-circa 1860
Media description
bronze
Measurements
145 x 170 x 130 mm
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A0657
TJC reference number
820
