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	Portland vase. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The vase, found in an ancient marble sarcophagus excavated at Monte del Grano near Rome in the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623–44), was placed in the palace of the Barberini family.
		It was lent in 1810 to the British Museum.
		The vase has been widely reproduced and copied; the most famous replicas were made (c.1789) in jasper ware by Josiah Wedgwood.
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	The Portland Vase
		This article discusses the Portland Vase which dates back to the end of the first century B.C. The Portland Vase dates to the end of the first century B.C. to the beginning of the first century A.D. The Portland vase is a glass amphora made during the rule of the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar.
		The vase was next acquired by a Scottish architect living in Italy, James Byres, who in the early 1780’s sold it to Sir William Hamilton and Englishman with a rather interesting background.
		Margaret’s son, the duke of Portland, purchased the ancient Roman vase and in 1810, after a family friend broke off the vase’s base, lent it to the British Museum, where it presumably would be safe and could be enjoyed by a wide audience.
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	Portland Power - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	AllRefer.com - vase (Arts And Crafts) - Encyclopedia
		The pottery vase was anciently employed as a container for water (a hydria), wine (an amphora), or oil (a lekythus), or for mixing and serving wine and water (a crater).
		The cinerary (cremation) vase, or urn, has been common throughout historical times, a famous one being the Portland vase.
		Vases or their fragments discovered in burial chambers and through excavations in various countries serve as records of the manners, customs, and history of their peoples.
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	Portland vase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Portland Vase : the extraordinary odyssey of a mysterious Roman treasure / Robin Brooks.
		The Portland Vase is a roman vase of dark-blue transparent glass with engraved...
		The Portland Vase The Portland Vase is a first-century Roman glass vase, which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the...
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	deseretnews.com \| 'Portland' is pattern name on 19th century vase
		In this case, the designation "Portland" refers to a famous cameo glass vase that most scholars believe was made during the Roman Empire and has been speculated to have once held the ashes of the Emperor Alexander Severus (reigned 222 — 235 A.D.).
		In the 17th century this vase was known as the "Barberini Vase," but when it was purchased by the Dowager Duchess of Portland around 1785, the name was changed to honor its new owner.
		In 1786, the vase was lent to Josiah Wedgwood, who copied it in his famous Jasperware pottery, and his vase is now used as a symbol of that company in what is called the "Portland Vase Mark," which was first used by Wedgwood about 1878.
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	Search Results for "Portland"
		Portland vase, a Roman glass vase, known also as the Barberini vase.
		Portland, William Bentinck, 1st earl of, 1649-1709, Dutch statesman in England.
		Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3d duke of, 1738-1809, British statesman; great-grandson of the 1st earl of Portland.
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	L&G November 2006: Session 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vase and cover are trimmed in dragon bead decoration, while the inside rim of both vase and cover are decorated in the Pan-Fei border.
		Vase is finished with a background of mottled yellow and a high lustre glaze.
		Vase is surrounded at the foot with resting gazelles under a starry sky.
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	Magazine Antiques: The Portland vase
		In 1810 the vase was deposited for safe-keeping in the British Museum in London by the fourth duke of Portland.
		The Portland Vase has been restored several times, most recently in 1988-1989, at which time it was possible to observe variations in the thickness of the glass that are not normally visible.
		In fact, the profile and dimensions of the vase are very similar to those of the Blue Vase from Pompeii, a cameo-glass amphora with a pointed base.(9) The comparison suggests that the Portland Vase is the upper part of an amphora thirteen or fourteen inches tall.
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		From 1627-1780 the vase resided in the Palace at Rome.
		March that year, Hamilton also displayed the vase to the Society of Antiquaries, where it was declared that ‘Sir William Hamilton was pleased to produce for the Inspection of the Society a Vase singularly curious brought by him from Italy and purchased there at a great Expense.
		Sold for 980 guineas (£1,029) the vase was soon loaned by the new owner, the third Duke, to Josiah for the purposes of emulating its form and decoration in Jasper.
	www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk /portland_vase.htm (2417 words)

	Pattern Histories
		The original fine blue glass vase with carved cameo decoration was bought by Sir William Hamilton for £1000 from James Byres, who had bought it from the Princess Barberini.
		Sir William Hamilton sold it to the Duchess of Portland in 1784 and, following her death in 1785, the Duke of Portland bought it at the auction of her effects in 1786.
		In 1845 while on loan from the Duke of Portland and on display on the British Museum it was smashed by William Lloyd who was inebriated.
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	February 7th
		The Portland Vase was found about the year 1560, in a sarcophagus in a sepulchre under the Monte del Grano, two miles and a half from Rome.
		From Sir William it was bought for 1800 guineas, by the Duchess of Portland; and at the sale of her Grace's property, after her decease, the Vase was bought in by the Portland family for £1029.
		The vase was engraved by Cipriani and Bartolozzi, in 1786.
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	Portland Vase -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since 1945 the vase has belonged to the (Click link for more info and facts about British Museum) British Museum.
		It is made of violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass (Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring)) cameo depicting seven figures (humans and gods).
		On February 7, 1845, the vase was shattered to pieces by one William Lloyd, who had drunkenly thrown a near by sculpture on top of the case smashing both it and the vase to pieces.
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		He owned the vase between the years 1780 and 1783, selling it early in the latter year to Sir William Hamilton, Envoy to the Court of Naples, and friend of Josiah Wedgwood I. Hamilton returned to England in the summer of 1783, and took the vase with him.
		The vase comprised lot 4155 on the final day of the sale and was bought by Charles Tomlinson who was acting for the Third Duke of Portland, the son of the late owner.
		A contemporaneous observation made by Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA declared that the Wedgwood copy of the Portland Vase was - ‘.a correct and faithfull imitation, both in regard to the general effect, and the most minute details of the parts.’ (15 June 1790).
	www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk /MuseumHighlights/PortlandVase.htm (714 words)

	Corning Museum of Glass \| Resource on Glass \| A Great Message From The Past
		Art historians compare the style of the vase with that of Roman wall paintings of around 20 B.C. They tell us that the vase was carved by a master craftsman whose style was similar to that of the gem cutter Dioskourides, who worked in Rome and was famous as the maker of Augustus's official seal.
		If a brilliant craftsman spent several years on the Portland Vase, it is fair to conclude that the cost of this object was beyond the means of all but the wealthiest citizens and that its message was important.
		One theory* about the Portland Vase, therefore, is that it is not simply an object of rare beauty; it is also a statement about the destiny of Augustus and Rome--and in 20 B.C., Romans would have found it as easy to understand as we find the Statue of Liberty.
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	Portland Vase — Infoplease.com
		In 1770 it was purchased by Sir William Hamilton, for 1,000 guineas, and cams afterwards into the possession of the Duchess of Portland.
		In 1810, the Duke of Portland, one of the trustees of the British Museum, allowed it to be placed in that institution for exhibition.
		Portland vase - Portland vase Portland vase, a Roman glass vase, known also as the Barberini vase.
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	Portland, Ore. — FactMonster.com
		In the 1850s Portland served as a supply base for the California gold rush, and it grew with the development of its salmon and lumber industries and the arrival of the railroad in 1883.
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	Exquisite vase still fascinates and puzzles after centuries - The Washington Times: Books - September 26, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The vase had so caught the imagination of Josiah Wedgwood in the 18th century that he had made several copies, works which themselves are considered the high-water mark of the British porcelain industry.
		The vase remained in the family, descending through various heirs until one, the fourth duke of Portland (he of the taste for pink) lent it to the British Museum in 1910 and another, the seventh duke of Portland, sold it to the museum in 1945.
		Whoever made the vase was craftsman enough to keep this brittle material from shattering during its formation (because of structural stresses brought about by the cooling of the two layers of glass at different speeds) or during the carving process.
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	The Portland Vase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1786 it came into the hands of her son, the third Duke of Portland, and it was he who lent it to Josiah Wedgwood, who made it famous through various copies.
		It was purchased by the Museum from the seventh duke of Portland in 1945.
		Recent research has shown that the Portland vase, like the majority of cameo-glass vessels, was made by the dip-overlay method, whereby an elongated bubble of glass was partially dipped into a crucible (fire-resistant container) of white glass, before the two were blown together.
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	Portland vase on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The mythological scene probably represents Peleus and Thetis accompanied by Poseidon on one side and Aphrodite on the other; on the bottom there is a bust of a young man in a Phrygian cap, possibly Paris.
		The vase, found in an ancient marble sarcophagus excavated at Monte del Grano near Rome in the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623-44), was placed in the palace of the Barberini family.
		The vase has been widely reproduced and copied; the most famous replicas were made (c.1789) in jasper ware by Josiah Wedgwood.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Prtlndvs.asp (405 words)

	Duke of Portland
		Family: Portland was the eldest son and the third of six children.
		Portland served in the governments of other Whig leaders until his second government, over 20 years later.
		The Portland Vase in the British Museum was given its name because it was owned by the Duke.
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	VASE - Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase.
		Note: Until the time of Walker (1791), vase was made to rhyme with base,, case, etc., and it is still commonly so pronounced in the United States.
		Ellis (1874) says: ``Vase has four pronunciations in English: v[add]z, which I most commonly say, is going out of use, v["a]z I hear most frequently, v[=a]z very rarely, and v[=a]s I only know from Cull's marking.
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	Television Point \| Dictionary \| Meaning of vase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase.
		Note: Until the time of Walker (1791), vase was made to rhyme with base,, case, etc., and it is still commonly so pronounced in the United States.
		Ellis (1874) says: ``Vase has four pronunciations in English: v[add]z, which I most commonly say, is going out of use, v["a]z I hear most frequently, v[=a]z very rarely, and v[=a]s I only know from Cull's marking.
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	The Portland Vase and the Borghese Vase
		Wedgwood probably regarded his greatest achievement as the copying in jasper of the Portland Vase, an ancient Roman glass vase now in the British Museum.
		Since Wedgwood's jasper was less translucent, he had to touch in the white jasper of his Portland vases lightly with grey or brown shadows.
		The Borghese vases are among the largest pieces of jasper ever produced by Wedgwood.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /ladylever/collections/wedgwood/portlandborghese.asp (318 words)

	The Portland vase Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		The first known record of the vase was written by the French polymath Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), who saw it in Rome during the winter of 1600-1601.(1) The vase had already been broken and repaired with the base disk, perhaps in antiquity.
		In 1626 the vase was acquired by Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679) whose librarian, Cassiano dal Pozzo (1589 or 1590-1657), included it in his gargantuan project to assemble prints and drawings of all significant Roman antiquities.
		In 1810 the vase was deposited for safe-keeping in the British Museum in London by the fourth duke of Portland.
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