The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble vase carved with Bacchic ornament, discovered around 1771 at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli by the Scottish painter and antiquarian Gavin Hamilton. It is now held in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, Scotland.
Facts
Year CreatedCirca; the source dates the design and ornament to the Roman second century CE, not a single year. Its 1771 discovery date at Hadrian's Villa is a separate, later event, not the manufacture date. LocationBurrell Collection, Glasgow 1 Primary MaterialMarble (partially restored) 1 Connections
In Form
Large ancient Roman marble vase, a copy of a Greek original.
Sources
1. Warwick Vase (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDescription section, dating sentence
The design and much of the ornament is Roman, of the second century CE
Lead paragraph, opening sentence
The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble (partially restored) vase with Bacchic ornament
History section, provenance sentence
it found a home at the Burrell Collection, in Glasgow
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