STORY OF PORTLAND VASE
United Service.,: (Received Bth March, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 7th. March. The Portland vase, to be sold by auction at Christie's, is enly ten inches high, made of blue glass, bearing white opaque figures, yet its value is incalculable. Its actual age nobody knows. It was found in Borne in the seventeenth century. History traced it back as far as the year 235 A.D. It wag reputed to contain the ashes of the Emperor Severus. Sir William Hamilton, husband of Nelson's Lady 'Hamilton, brought the vase to England at the end of. the eighteenth centur,y. The Cavendishes acquired it and sold if for £1890. It can safely be assumed that high taxation has driven the owner, tho Duke of Portland, (o sell it. Only when a miscreant broke the vase'into a hundred pieces in 1845, did the museuih expertf learn that iOwas made of ascltit Boman. glass*
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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150STORY OF PORTLAND VASE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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