Marbles and bronzes; fifty plates from selected subjects in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities . Fig. 6.—The Portland Vase (Plate 50). The Portland Vase. A glass vase, in layers of dark blue andopaque white, the white layer being carved in relief, in themanner of a cameo. The subjects are doubtful, but appear tobe scenes from the story of Peleus and Thetis. On the sideshown in the plate Peleus watches Thetis asleep, in the presenceof Aphrodite. The work is of the 1st century The vase was found (according to a tradition of questionablevalue) in a marble sarcophagus in the Monte
Marbles and bronzes; fifty plates from selected subjects in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities . Fig. 6.—The Portland Vase (Plate 50). The Portland Vase. A glass vase, in layers of dark blue andopaque white, the white layer being carved in relief, in themanner of a cameo. The subjects are doubtful, but appear tobe scenes from the story of Peleus and Thetis. On the sideshown in the plate Peleus watches Thetis asleep, in the presenceof Aphrodite. The work is of the 1st century The vase was found (according to a tradition of questionablevalue) in a marble sarcophagus in the Monte del Grano, nearEomc. It was formerly in the Barberini Palace, whence it passedto the collection of the Dukes of Portland, by whom it has beendeposited in the British Museum. It was wantonly broken bya visitor in
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