Vase Gallery

The Portland Vase or Barberini Vase

The Portland Vase or Barberini Vase. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co. from Frederick Rathbone's Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood, Quaritch, London, 1898. Date:

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Items in the Tudor Exhibition, 1890

Engraving showing a number of relics from the sixteenth century exhibited in the Tudor Exhibition of 1890. The items pictured include: Henry VIII's hat (top right), jewelled dagger (middle right) and shoes (bottom middle) and Anne Boleyn's Toilet Case (middle left) and White feather tippet (bottom middle). At bottom left is the Garrick Vase, an ornate cup, carved from a mulberry tree planted by William Shakespeare

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Elegant Parisian man in the 1792 style

Elegant Parisian man in the 1792 style and a young German woman in cape and bonnet.. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by Joh. Klipphahn, and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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