Copy of the Portland Vase
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1860
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Dark blue two-handled ovoid body with tapered neck and flared circular mouth; body decorated with low white running relief scene showing figures in classical garb set amongst a columned structure and landscape, copying the design of the Roman Portland Vase; bases of handles decorated with white masks; underside of vase decorated with white relief of man in Phrygian cap before a leafy tree branch.
place: label: made in
content: Staffordshire, England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1915-30-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Vase
label: Type
content: Vase
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: stoneware
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 27 × 18 cm (10 5/8 × 7 1/16 in.)