The Manor House Collection is based on the Warwick Vase, an ancient Roman marble vase with Bacchic ornamentation. It was discovered at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, Rome around 1771 by Gavin Hamilton, a Scottish painter-antiquarian and art dealer. The vase was found in the silt of a marshy pond at the low point of the villa’s extensive grounds. He then sold the fragments of the vase to Sir William Hamilton, the British envoy at the Court of Naples. It was then passed to his nephew George Greville, the second Earl of Warwick. It now resounds in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, Scotland.