Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Alcock & Co
Title:
Portland vase
Published / Created:
Burslem, Staffordshire, England, 1845.
Physical Description:
1 jug : lavendar and white relief-molded parian ; 28 cm high x 13 cm in diameter (19 cm including handle)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 72
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Without a metal lid.

Title and date from Hughes's Collector's guide.

Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 56

This jug is a copy of the first-century Portland vase made of cameo glass. It is decorated with classical figures standing and in repose.
Subject Terms:
Cupid (Roman deity) | Peleus (Mythological character) | Thetis (Mythological character) | Portland Vase. | Parks, Stephen -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Parian (porcelain, material)