Famous vessels of stone, glass and ceramic, among them a cameo glass vase of ancient Rome, a marble vase with Bacchic ornament, a cup that changes color in the light and a carved stone vase of ancient Mesopotamia. A work belongs here when the cited article calls it a vase or a cup. It excludes vessels of precious metal, which sit with the metalwork and treasure. The group follows the form the cited article names. The group follows the form of the object as the cited article names it, whatever the material or the age of the piece.
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Portland Vase (Wikipedia)
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The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which dates between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support.
Warwick Vase (Wikipedia)
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The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble (partially restored) 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, and
Lycurgus Cup (Wikipedia)
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The Lycurgus Cup is a Roman glass 4th-century cage cup made of a dichroic glass, which shows a different colour depending on whether or not light is passing through it: red when lit from behind and green when lit from in front.
Warka Vase (Wikipedia)
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The Warka Vase or Uruk vase is a slim carved alabaster vessel found in a temple complex in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk, located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate, in southern Iraq.
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