Collection place: Essex, East of England / Donor: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collection place Essex, East of England Donor University Art Museum (UC Berkeley)

Hearst Museum object titled Miniature vase, accession number 7-10093, described as Vase, bottom described as "Model of Roman Vase found in the "'Cloaca' now in Colchester Castle." General shape is edged ellipse. Two small handles on opposite sides rounded square handles attached to the upper neck to the mid-section of the top portion of the ellipse. The neck is short and slightly fluted out with a gold trimmed mouth. The shield is in Classic shape and divided per pale via a zig-zag. The left half is blue the right half is white. Resting just above the shield is a yellow pigeon stands on a blue and white diagonally striped pole with and olive branch (?) in its beak. Below the shield is a yellow ribbon written in Latin "Non mihi, non tibis, sed nobis" underneath this is written "Battersea" Made by W.H. Goss 1858-1887.