The Stowe Vase

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The Stowe Vase

Unknown, Roman, Hadrianic period, 117-138
Sculpture
Marble
Vase: 47 × 40 × 30 in. (119.38 × 101.6 × 76.2 cm) Base: 41 5/8 × 28 3/8 × 26 1/4 in. (105.73 × 72.07 × 66.68 cm) Vase and Base together: 88 5/8 × 68 3/8 × 56 1/4 in. (225.11 × 173.67 × 142.88 cm) Weight (Total weight with slate crate (w/steel frame), object and base.): 1 Ton 940 lb. (1333.6 kg)
William Randolph Hearst Collection (51.18.8)
Greek, Roman and Etruscan Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Transformation: the LACMA Campaign. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 2008.
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers. "Piranesi, the Stowe Vase and the Silver Buckingham Vases." The Burlington Magazine 162, no.1407 (June 2020): 502-511.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Transformation: the LACMA Campaign. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 2008.
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers. "Piranesi, the Stowe Vase and the Silver Buckingham Vases." The Burlington Magazine 162, no.1407 (June 2020): 502-511.

  • Levkoff, Mary. "Hearst and the Antique." Apollo 168, no.558 (October 2008): 52-60.

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