WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS VASE TO BE SOLD SOON
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday TT is officially announced that the Portland Vase, the most famous glass vessel in the world, will shortly be sold at Christie’s. It has been in the British Museum for 119 years on loan from the Duke of Portland. It is expected to realise between £50,000 and £IOO,OOO. The Vase is a fine example of cameo glass of the early Roman Umpire. An amphora 92in high, its blue glass body has an opaque white overlay cut in relief, illustrating the Peleus and Thetis story. Formerly in the Barberini Palace, Rome, it passed into the Portland family, who deposited it in 1810 in the British Museum. Shattered by a madman in 1845, it was skilfully restored. Josiah Wedgwood made 50 earthenware reproductions.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 9
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139WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS VASE TO BE SOLD SOON Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 9
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