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The "Rubens Vase"   (  )
Artist	Anonymous (Byzantine Empire)Unknown author
Title	The "Rubens Vase"
Description	English: 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.
Date	circa 400 (Late Antique)
Medium	agate and gold
Dimensions	height: 18.6 cm (7.3 in); width: 18.5 cm (7.2 in); depth: 12 cm (4.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,18.6U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,18.5U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,12U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	42.562
Place of creation	Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) (?)
Object history	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
Exhibition history	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.
Credit line	Museum purchase [formerly part of the Walters Collection], 1941
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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