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Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)

Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 339

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ented on. The ashes had, perhaps, beenthus introduced, the neck being too narrow to admit them. Tlie colorswere a deep dark-blue, almost black, ground, on Avhich tlie designs werecut from a layer of opaque wliite glass, in cameo style. On the sale of the Barberini library, the vase was purchased by… … 233. From the Portland Vase. ENGLAND. 335 Yes, but never under a tliousand pounds. I will give you a thousandpounds; and so I did. He afterward wrote, I have no doubt of thisbeing a work of the time of Alexander the Great, and was probablybrought out of Asia by Alexander, whose ashes were deposited…

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