The Grecian Vase (1913)
In the window of an antique shop there once stood a Greek vase which meant more to Giulio, a poor sculptor, who lived nearby, than anything else in the world. On the vase was the figure of a woman skillfully executed. Giulio was in love with the vase and in love with the woman upon it. One day an unusually stringent state of finances forced Giulio to take a little statue on which he had devoted many hours of careful labor to the antique shop in the hope of selling it. Inside the shop he paused to pay his daily tribute of admiration to the vase. As he tamed away, the end of the statue which he carried hit the vase and knocked it to the floor, where it shattered into a thousand pieces. The indignant clerk, discovering that Giulio was penniless, insisted on taking the statue in return for the broken vase. Giulio took the broken pieces and went sadly back to his attic. On one little fragment of the vase the face of the woman was still preserved in all its former beauty. Giulio gazed on it yearningly and fell into a deep reverie. He saw the woman of the vase in the midst of a laughing throng of dancing dryads, and followed her over hill and dale while the mystic pipes of Pan filled the air with a music as intoxicating as old wine. The dream was the taming point of Giulio's fortunes, for he awoke from it to find a letter from the manager of the antique shop, informing him that his statue was worth many times the value of the broken vase. So strongly did the vision affect Giulio that he wrought, in living marble, a statue of the dream woman that made him famous.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Richard Ridgely | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Hans Roberts | |
| Laura Sawyer | |
| Wadsworth Harris |
