
19th Century Grand Tour Attic Vase
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Circa 1840 Italy
Height
13 inches (33 cm)Width
4 1/2 inches (11.5 cm)Depth
4 1/2 inches (11.5 cm)A mid-nineteenth century Attic vase, with carrying handle, the red ground decorated with figures in black.
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.