MAKE A MEME View Large Image Byzantine - The "Rubens Vase" - Walters 42562 - Left.jpg Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor It made its way to France probably ...
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Keywords: Byzantine - The "Rubens Vase" - Walters 42562 - Left.jpg Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor It made its way to France probably carried off as treasure after the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade where it passed through the hands of some of the most renowned collectors of western Europe including the Dukes of Anjou and King Charles V of France In 1619 the vase was purchased by the great Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640 A drawing that he made of it is now in Saint Petersburg State Hermitage Museum inv 5430 The subsequent fate of the vase before the 19th century is obscure The gold mount around its rim is struck with a French gold-standard mark used in 1809-1819 and with the guarantee stamp of the French departement of Ain A similar late Roman agate vessel the Waddesdon Vase or Cellini Vase in now in the British Museum London ca 400 Late Antique agate and gold cm 18 6 18 5 12 accession number 42 562 10284 Foire Saint Germain Sale Paris 1619 Peter Paul Rubens Antwerp 1619 by purchase Daniel Fourment Antwerp ca 1626-1628 by purchase Emperor Jahangir of India date of acquisition unknown by consignment Dutch East India Company prior to 1635 by confiscation Holland 1818 William Beckford Fonthill Abbey Wiltshire 1818 by purchase Sale English Fasana Bath November 20 1845 no 167 Alexander Hamilton 10th Duke of Hamilton London 1845 by purchase William A A Hamilton 11th Duke of Hamilton 1852 by inheritance William A L S Douglas-Hamilton 12th Duke of Hamilton 1863 by inheritance Sale Christie's London June 17 1882 no 487 Samson Wertheimer London 1882 by purchase Sale Christie's London March 15 1892 Alfred Morrison London 1892 by purchase Sale Christie's London June 12 1899 Sir Francis Cook Richmond 1899 by purchase Wyndham F Cook London 1901 by inheritance Humphrey W Cook London 1905 by inheritance Sale London Christie's July 14 1925 no 90 Henry Walters New York 1925 by purchase Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritance Sale Parke-Bernet New York May 2 1941 no 1316 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase formerly part of the Walters Collection 1941 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license The Rubens Vase Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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