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A SCOTTISH SILVER WARWICK VASE
Mark Aitchison, Edinburgh 1877
Of typical two-handled pedestal form, hallmarked to base and on side
of vase, 27cm high, 37cm wide, weight 111.8oz.

£3,000 - 4,000
€3,500 - 4,700

The Warwick Vase was excavated from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli in 1771,
by Gavin Hamilton, and dates to the second century AD. Hamilton
sold the vase to his nephew, the 2nd Earl of Warwick, who built a
specially commissioned conservatory in the grounds of Warwick Castle
to house it. Some 200 years later in 1978 the vase was sold to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As it had been declared an
object of national importance, an export licence was refused and funds
were raised to keep it in the country. It now forms part of the Burrell
Collection in Glasgow.

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