PRECIOUS VASE
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION FAMOUS ROMAN RELIC Presa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 6. It is officially announced that the Portland vase, the most famous glass vessel in the world, will shortly he sold at Christies. It has been in the British Museum for 119 years on loan by the Dukes of Portland. It is expected to realise between £50,000 and £IOO,OOO. —Australian Press Association. [The Portland vase is a fine example of cameo glass of the early Roman Empire. An amphora 9|in high, its blue-glass body has an opaque white overlay cut in relief, illustrating the Pseleus 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.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 14
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134PRECIOUS VASE Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 14
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