VI.5.5 Pompeii. Casa
del Granduca Michele di Russia or Casa dei Vasi di vetro or House of the Glass
Vases.
Linked to VI.5.6, VI.5.21. Excavated 1837, 1844, 2005 to 2006, 2009 to 2010.
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VI.5.5 Pompeii.
September 2005. Entrance doorway.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway looking east.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance corridor, looking east to peristyle.
Since 2005, this house has been re-examined, and limited excavations have taken place below the 79AD level.
See http://www.fastionline.org/micro_view.php?fst_cd=AIAC_141&curcol=main_column .
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Exterior wall to north of entrance.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December
2007. Impluvium in atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south-east across peristyle, from west portico. See also VI.5.21.
According to Fiorelli, the garden area was enclosed by a portico on the west, north and east sides.
In the middle of the garden was a pergola supported by four small slender columns painted with leaves and scales.
According to Jashemski, on the south wall was a painted garden scene, divided into three panels by the half-columns.
Near this wall were three masonry pedestals, on which three statuettes were found on March 31st 1837.
The statuettes were described in PAH as showing –
Hercules (0.60m high without base) with a gnarled club, a lion skin and with the three apples of the Hesperides;
A Bacchus with a cup in one hand, a thyrsus in part missing, in the other hand, and a panther at his feet (0.71m high without the base);
A third, perhaps Flora, partly broken (0.77, high, without the base, if complete).
Schulz described one of the statuettes as Silenus (Bacchus?), identical to the one found in the House of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
He says that all the statuettes were given to the Grand Duke Mikhail.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.125-6)
See PAH, 2, 334 (March 31, 1837)
Fiorelli, Descrizione, p.98
Schulz, AdI, (1838), p.185-186, 191.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. pre-1937-39.
Painted base of one of the four slender columns which supported a small pergola in the middle of the garden.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection no. 1694.
The base of the thin columns were painted as to show leaves and scales divided-in-half, as described by Schultz.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across peristyle, from atrium. There is no tablinum in this house.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. North portico, looking east.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of portico.
VI.5.5 Pompeii but numbered as VI.5.3 on the photo. 1937-39.
Remains of one of the stucco decorated capitals from columns in peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection no. 807.
VI.5.5 Pompeii but numbered as VI.5.3 on photo. 1937-39.
Remains of one of the capitals decorated with a stucco cornice on column in peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection no. 807a.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of peristyle with half-columns.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of peristyle with half columns.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Detail of stucco from south wall of peristyle.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south in peristyle.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of painting from peristyle.