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Townley Vase lrg Supply

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The Charles Townley vase.

Roman, 2nd century AD

Found at a villa at Monte Cagnolo, near Rome

This marble vase, an adapted form of the Greekvolute-krater, is decorated in high relief with a Bacchic scene, featuring the rustic deity Pan, Bacchus, and both male (satyrs) and female (maenads).

The vase gets its name from the famous collector Charles Townley (AD 1737-1805). Gavin Hamilton, Charles Townley s agent in Italy, describes finding it in numerous fragments together with other sculptures in a large villa at Monte Cagnolo, near Rome, having been …thrown promiscuously into one room about ten feet under ground . The vase as you see it today has been reconstructed …with great attention, as the work deserves. The restored vase was purchased by Townley for £250 in 1774.

It was once believed that the vase was one of the main inspirations for the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) when he wrote the famous Ode on a Grecian Urn .

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)

Vase Size.

38 cm tall

23 cm wide


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