Historical Objects / Medals

Collection of Tyler Yates

Thomason's Bronze Vase

Engraver:
E. Thomason
Year:
1829
Country:
Great Britain
Diameter:
52 mm
Obverse:
The vase standing on a pedestal.
THOMASONS METALLIC BRONZE VASE. PRECISELY THE SIZE OF THE MARBLE ONE AT WARWICK CASTLE.
OCCUPIED 6 YEARS TO MODEL CAST AND SCULPTURE
Reverse:
Another view of the vase.
21 FEET IN CIRCUMFERENCE AND 5 FEET 10 IN: IN HEIGHT.
BRONZED IN DEVOTOXIDE IN 1820 ACQUIRED A PER OXIDE IN 1829
References:
BHM 1359

The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble vase with Bacchic ornament that was discovered at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli about 1771 by Gavin Hamilton. Hamilton was a Scottish painter-antiquarian and art dealer in Rome, and is now in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow in Scotland.

Sir Edward Thomason (1769-1849) made a copy of the Warwick Vase in bronze.