The drawing of the Naples (or Pompeii) vase, is half the size of the original, deposited in the Public Museum of Naples. it was discovered in a sepulcher of Pompeii, on the 29th of December, 1839. It is of the same character, in the colours and quality of the Glass, as the Portland case, in the British Museum; the white enamel figures upon the dark blue transparent ground being raised, or embossed out of the white exterior coating, by first-rate engravers, probably Grecian artists working in Rome at an early period, or possibly as late as the reign of Trajan, about seventy years after the Christian era.

This beautiful vase is, no doubt, of more recent date than the Portland, and has an artistic playfulness of subject, of less severe and conventional character. it is tastefully descriptive of the in-gathering of the vintage harvest; beautifully harmonizing the Bacchanalian figures with the arabesque