拍品专文
The Roman white marble original of this vase was found by Gavin Hamilton in the ruins of Hadrian's villa near Tivoli (built in 124 A.D.) in 1771. The Earl of Warwick purchased it soon after its discovery from William Hamilton and installed it in his conservatory. It is now in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. Thomasson of Manchester reproduced the vase in bronze with gilt handles and decoration and when Karl Friedrich Schinkel came to England in 1826, he saw a reproduction of the vase in the Birmingham factory of Sir Edward Thomasson and later had it cast in the Berlin Royal Iron Foundries.