 | British Museum - 1880 - 306 pages
...followed by royal, imperial, and other portraits. In Case T are subjects relating to ordinary life, figures of animals, symbols, inscriptions, and miscellaneous...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.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Arthur Beresford Ryley - 1913 - 178 pages
...on the obverse, with a woman seated and approached by a lover led by Eros, 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 said to be Peleus watching his bride... | |
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Pelion, and Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus, in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Atys. 