 Sometime that year it was acquired by Sir John Boyd during his Grand Tour.He was a wealthy West Indies proprietor and director of the British East India Company, and displayed it in the landscaped grounds of his neo-Palladian mansion Danson House at Bexley, where the dining room's wallpaintings took up the vase's Bacchic themes.It was purchased from Boyd's eventual heirs and Hugh Johnston by the British Museum in 1868.