 | British Museum - 1880 - 306 pages
...inscriptions, and miscellaneous subjects. On Case R is placed the celebrated glass vase, deposited by its owner the Duke of Portland, in the British Museum, and thence...of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Atys. In Case W is exhibited a series of trays from the general collection of coins, Greek, Roman, and English.... | |
 | British Museum - 1883 - 230 pages
...inscriptions, and miscellaneous subjects. On Case R is placed the celebrated glass vase, deposited by its owner the Duke of Portland, in the British Museum, and thence...alabaster jar, found on the site of the Mausoleum, at Halikarnassos, near a great stone which probably closed the entrance to the sepulchral chamber. The... | |
 | British Museum, Edward Augustus Bond - 1884 - 244 pages
...palace. The ground of the vase is of blue glass; the design is cut in a layer of opaque white glass. Th« composition is supposed to represent, on the obverse,...alabaster jar, found on the site of the Mausoleum, at Halikarnassos, near a great stone which probably closed the entrance to the sepulchral chamber. The... | |
 | Lafayette Charles Loomis - 1888 - 658 pages
...blue glass, with a design cut in opaque white glass, representing Peleus and Thetis on Mount Pclion ; on the reverse, Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. In 1845 it was dashed in pieces by a madman, but was restored with such skill as to leave little trace... | |
 | 1891 - 844 pages
...British Museum Guide ( 1890) it is stated that the coniposition is supposed to represent on the obverse Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus, in the presence of Poseidon and Eros ; on the reverse, Peleus and Thetis on Mount Pelion. On the bottom of the vase is a bust of Paris. The vase... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1899 - 256 pages
...on the obverse, with a woman seated, approached by a lover led on by Cupid, is supposed to represent Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus in the presence of Poseidon. That on the reverse, with a sleeping figure and two others, is supposed to be Peleus watching his bride... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1899 - 246 pages
...is supposed to be Peleus watching his bride Thetis asleep, while Aphrodite presides over the scene. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust, probably of Paris, wearing a Phrygian cap. The Portland Vase was wantonly broken to atoms by a lunatic... | |
 | Lafayette Charles Loomis - 1901 - 654 pages
...blue glass, with a design cut in opaque white glass, representing Peleus and Thetis on Mount Pelion ; on the reverse, Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. In 1845 it was dashed in pieces by a madman, but was restored with such skill as to leave little trace... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1903 - 848 pages
...goddess of love presides over the scene. The inverted torch held by Thetis is the symbol of sleep. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Paris wearing a Phrygian cap. This bas-relief had belonged originally to some other vase or fragment,... | |
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The composition is supposed to represent, on the obverse, the meeting of Peleus and Thetis on Mount Pelion, and on the reverse, Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus, in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached,... 
