VALUABLE VASE
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, March 7. The Portland Pase though it has been loaned to the Museum since 1810 is a remarkable rarity. It is only ten inches high, and is made of blue glass bearing white opaque figures; yet its value is incalulablc. Its actual age, nobody knows. It was found in Rome in the seventeenth century. Its history has been traced back as far as the year 235. It was reputed to contain the ahes of the Emperor Eeverus. Sir William Hamilton, the husband of Nelson’s Lady Jiamilton, brought the vase to England at the end of the eighteenth century. The Cavendishes then acquired it, and they sold it for £IB9O. It can safely be assumed that high taxation has driven the owner of the Vase to sell it. It was only when a miscreant broke the vase into a hundred pieces, in the year 1845, that the British Museum experts learned that it was made of the ancient Roman glass.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1929, Page 6
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