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Paris and Helen Receiving Ill Advice
late 18th century (Neoclassical)
jasperware
(18th and 19th Centuries )
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This pair of brown, white, and yellow jasperware vases (with WAM 48.864) are decorated with a Homeric scene of Paris and Helen being given bad advice.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Collection of A. J. Crawford to 1908 or E. F. Bonaventure, New York, to 1911; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908 or 1911 by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, Etruria, Staffordshire (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.863