On a reduced scale, the vases made admirable wine coolers in silver, or in silver-gilt, as Paul Storr delivered them to the Prince Regent in 1808 (Haskell and Penny 1981:315.) John Flaxman based a bas-relief on the frieze of the Borghese Vase.
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In his Capriccio (illustration, below right), Hubert Robert has enlarged the Borghese Vase for dramatic effect and set it, in atmospherically ruinous condition, on the Aventine overlooking the Colosseum, a position it never occupied.
FA Vase | vase | Galleria Borghese | Villa Borghese | Junio Valerio Borghese | Woodlawn Vase | Villa Borghese gardens | The "Harvesters vase" from Hagia triada | Princess Marcella Borghese | Edward Allington's sculpture "Tilted Vase" in the centre of Ramsbottom | Chatham Vase | ''Capriccio: draughtsman sketching the Borghese Vase'', red chalk, Hubert Robert |