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A rare and imposing Victorian sterling silver Warwick Vase on…
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Melbourne
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31-Jul-2016
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A rare and imposing Victorian sterling silver Warwick Vase on Stand by Benjamin Smith II, London 1841 with two side vine-stem bifurcated handles, a trumpet foot, four cast relief masks of Hercules and Bacchus between masks of beaded satyrs above the pelt of the Nemean lion, raised on a square block stand engraved with a coat of arms and a presentation inscription in Latin, 37 cm high overall, 36 cm wide, 4,225 grams, The arms and motto are those of Edwards, The Warwick vase was based on a 2nd/4th century krater form marble vase discovered in about 1771, in fragments in a pool at Hadrian's Villa, (the Villa Adriana) at Tivoli, near Rome, and purchased by Gavin Hamilton. The marble vase was restored for Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), the British envoy to Naples, who being unable to agree a price to sell it to the British Museum, sold it to his nephew. George Grenville, the 2nd Earl of Warwick, who brought it to England in 1774. The marble vase was sold in 1978 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, but an export license was refused and it was acquired by the Burrell Collection and is now in the Burrell Museum, Glasgow
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Silver: Vases