The body of the vase is made from a round Roman altar first recorded at Pozzuoli, near Naples, in 1489. A drawing in the British Museum shows it before its transformation into a vase in the eighteenth century. The subject of the relief is the marriage of Paris, son of Priam of Troy, to Helen. Thomas Jenkins (1720-1798), a painter, banker and dealer in Classical antiquities based in Rome, probably bought this work in Naples in 1769.
MEASUREMENTS Height: 215cm diameter:119.5 vase cm Width: 68cm Depth: 67.3 base cm Height: 38.8cm Width: 82.5cm Depth: 82.5 pedestal cm Height: 172 vase cm
Had an hour to kill, made a few videos of different sculptures that interested me. This one turned out rather well, considering it was behind rope and I couldn’t get at the details.
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