The present vase is an ambitious and exceptionally carved example of the Neoclassical enthusiasm for antiquity that flourished across Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Carved in pure white statuary marble, and raised on its original tall pedestal, it stands as a monumental reimagining of the famed Warwick Vase, the colossal Roman vessel discovered in fragments in the 1760s at Hadrian’s Villa near Tivoli. Like so many distinguished Florentine interpretations of the antique at the turn of the nineteenth century, the present work does not merely reproduce the ancient model but transforms it into a new, harmoniously ordered sculptural programme resonant with the intellectual and artistic aspirations of its age. The refinement of its carving, the sophistication of its iconography, and its consonance with securely attributed works by Lorenzo Bartolini (1777–1850) and his workshop together position the vase firmly within the sphere of Florentine Neoclassicism at its most elegant and inventive.