A large and well cast 19th century Grand Tour Warwick Vase on the original verde antico marble base. The vase is richly carved with 3-dimensional faces of Bacchic gods and with intertwined leaf and grape-vine detail relating to the cult of the Roman god of wine.The front is carved with a lion mask and pelt and the twin handles are intertwined grape vines. Joined to the marble base by a contrasting ring of gilded bronze.

The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble vase with Bacchic ornament that was discovered at Hadrian”s Villa , Tivoli in 1771 by the Scottish antiquarian and art dealer, Gavin Hamilton. The vase was one of many fine sculptures with which Hadrian adorned the gardens of his palatial villa. The vase was found in fragments in the silts of Lake Tiburtina and reconstructed by Piranesi for Sir William Hamilton, British envoy to the court of Naples. From Hamilton”s collection it passed to his nephew George Greville ,2nd Earl of Warwick, from where it”s title derives. It is now on exhibition in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow, having been saved for the nation .