This medium size version of Wedgwood's Portland Vase model is large enough to allow sharp...
This medium size version of Wedgwood's Portland Vase model is large enough to allow sharp detail and to capture the beauty of the justly famed relief figures of gods and demi-gods.
As with the original in the British Museum, the shape is that of an amphora of which the pointed end has been truncated and replaced with a flat base. The modesty of the classical figures is preserved by the modified draperies adopted by the pottery for most of its nineteenth century versions. The figures, rocky ledges, and architectural elements stand in elegant contrast to the smooth black jasper dip surface.