A bronze Borghese urn cast by Morris Singer and Co, circa 1984

This urn was recorded in the garden of Carlo Muti in 1594 by Flaminio Vacca who added that it had been discovered along with the Silenus and Infant Bacchus on Muti’s estate near present day Casino Massimo. In 1645 the urn had found its way into the Villa Borghese where it stayed until purchased by Napoleon in 1807. By 1811 it was on display in the Louvre where it remains today.

Three copies of the urn , in a similar monumental scale were made for the Bassin de Latone, Versailles.

 This example was cast by the Singer foundry in 1984