Borghese Vase [SEP] material used
Borghese Vase
The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century BC as a garden ornament for the Roman market; it is now in the Louvre Museum.
Original.
Original Iconography.
Standing 1.72 metres tall and with a diameter of 1.35 m., the vase has a deep frieze with bas-reliefs and an everted gadrooned lip over a gadrooned lower section, where paired satyrs' heads mark the former placement of loop handles;
for imitation in bronze or porcelain, for example by Wedgwood. Material on the many later decorative versions of the pairing can be found at Borghese Vase.
See also.
- Medici lions
References.
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, 1981. "Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900" (Yale University Press) 1981: cat. no. 82.
External links.
- Flickr: "Replica of Medici Vase in Kew Gardens" — "photo".