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The Portland Vase

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The lithograph is one of the illustrations to T Windus's interpretation of the subject of the Portland Vase (see Bibliography).The lithograph shows part of the frieze on the Portland vase. The vase is made of blue glass with a cameo-cut relief in white glass. It originally had a base, possibly pointed like an amphora, replaced by a disc of cameo glass (see Classical Antiquities 12.2).
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Title: The Portland Vase
Description:
The lithograph is one of the illustrations to T Windus's interpretation of the subject of the Portland Vase (see Bibliography).
The lithograph shows part of the frieze on the Portland vase.
The vase is made of blue glass with a cameo-cut relief in white glass.
It originally had a base, possibly pointed like an amphora, replaced by a disc of cameo glass (see Classical Antiquities 12.
2).

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