The beauty of the Portland Vase

You must have heard about this very famous piece. It now resides in the Royal British museum in England. It is supposed to have been the property of a Cardinal residing in Rome some 400 years ago.

Experts place the origins of this beauty to the era AD 5-25. I believe such objects of beauty were commissioned to pottery makers by rich folks and were given as wedding gifts. Vases showing  a man and a woman with a mythical figure thrown in plus an angel or a kid skipping around, then it was surely meant to be gifted at a wedding with blessings  that  the union bears children.

Many, many replicas of this vase are found all over. When next you go to London, go look on this divine piece and marvel at it's beauty.

Every time I look upon the vase above  it  sends a tingle up my leg.