Circa 1840 Italy
19th Century Grand Tour Attic Vase
£950
SOLD
Height 11 inches (28 cm)
Width 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm)
Depth 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm)
A mid-nineteenth century Attic vase with carrying handle, decorated with black glazed figures upon a red ground.
Souvenir objects such as this were made for sale to tourists participating in nineteenth century Grand Tours of italy and Greece in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.