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 340
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… … 234. Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Wedgwood medallion: jasper. Stories have been told in connection with the first sale of the vase,that a Barberini princess had lost money at cards, and parted with liermost vahial)le antiquities to rejiair her losses; that the pope, hearing of it,forbade their exportation,…
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