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The Jenkins vase
The body of the vase is made from a round Roman altar first recorded at Pozzuoli, near Naples, in 1489. A drawing in the British Museum shows it before its transformation into a vase in the eighteenth century. The subject of the relief is the marriage of Paris, son of Priam of Troy, to Helen. Thomas Jenkins (1720-1798), a painter, banker and dealer in Classical antiquities based in Rome, probably bought this work in Naples in 1769.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 14
Creation/Production
ROMAN/ITALIAN
Date: 18th century –
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 1976
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height
(cm): 215
diam
(cm): 119.5
Width
(cm): 68
Depth
(cm): 67.3
Height
(cm): 38.8
Width
(cm): 82.5
Depth
(cm): 82.5
Height
(in): 67
diam
(in): 48
Width
(in): 26
Depth
(in): 26
Height
(in): 15
Width
(in): 32
Depth
(in): 32
Height
(cm): 172
Material
marble
Location
Gallery 01
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