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Title(s)
Portland Vase
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Published/Created
Burslem, Staffordshire, England, 1845.
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Physical Description
1 jug : white and lavender relief-molded parian stoneware ; 24 cm high (including handle) x 13 cm in diameter (17 cm including handle)
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 71
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961
Accessible in the Study Room [Request] -
Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Notes
Without a metal lid.
Title and date from Hughes's Collector's guide.
Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 56
This jug is a copy of the first-century Portland Vase made of cameo glass. It is decorated with classical figures standing and in repose. -
Subject Terms
Cupid (Roman deity) | Parks, Stephen -- Ownership. | Peleus (Mythological character) | Portland Vase. | Thetis (Mythological character)
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Form/Genre
Ceramic (material) | Jugs (vessels) | Molding (forming) | Parian (porcelain, material) | Stoneware (pottery)
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