Warwick tumbler; French school; 19th century. Bronze. Stamps... Lot 5

Warwick tumbler; French school; 19th century. Bronze. Stamps on the base. Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid. Measurements: 34,5 x 57 x 39 cm. Work made in bronze that follows the models of the well-known Warwick Vase. The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble vase with Bacchic ornamentation that was discovered in the Villa Adriana, Tivoli around 1771 by Gavin Hamilton, a Scottish painter-antiquarian and art dealer in Rome, and is now in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow in Scotland. The vase was found in the sediment of a marshy pond at the low point of the extensive grounds of the villa, where Hamilton had obtained excavation rights and proceeded to drain the area. Hamilton sold the fragments to Sir William Hamilton, British envoy to the court of Naples, from whose well-known collection it passed to his nephew George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, where it caused a sensation.