Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)
London · leaf 132
XXIX Copy of the Portland Vase in black jasper ware with whitereliefs. This is one of the orio-inal set of copies made by [osiahWedgwood about 1790, and it bears the number 4. H. lo in. Part of a large collection of Wedgwood wares given by Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Falcke in 1909. yiyy … XXX Covered Vase with two handles in rococo taste. Soft-pasteporcelain with deep blue ground, rich g-ilding and large panelspainted with coloured designs. In the panels are pairs of Wat-teauestjuc figures with musical instruments and flowers, proV)ablypainted b) John Donaldson. Mark, a gold anchor.…
Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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