C19th French Gilt Bronze 'Grand Tour' Souvenir of the Borghese Vase , After the Antique.

C19th French gilt bronze 'Grand Tour' souvenir of the Borghese vase , after the antique.

Well-cast ormolu reduction of the antique marble vase , known as 'The Borghese Vase'. The frieze depicting an ecstatic Bacchanalian procession accompanying Dionysus.

The ancient Pentelic marble vase is of monumental bell-shaped Krater form , sculpted in Athens in the second half of the 1st Century AD as a garden ornament for the Roman market. It is now in the Louvre Museum, Paris , France. It's popular name derives from its association with the Borghese family , from whom it was purchased by Napoleon in 1808 and displayed in the Louvre since 1811.

Raised upon a black marble stepped plinth and set into an ebonised wooden base with moulded edge .

H 9"

W 6"

D 6"

France c.1870

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