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    Perhaps the first instance of museum art vandalism was the shattering of which cameo glass piece?

    Question #115111. Asked by Datsmeharse. (Jun 05 10 9:05 PM)


    serpa

    		Portland vase, a Roman glass vase, known also as the Barberini vase. It is an unusually fine work of the late Augustan era (early 1st cent. B.C.). About 10 in. (25 cm) high and 22 in. (56 cm) in circumference, it is made of a deep, violet-blue glass overlaid with opaque, white glass into which figures are cut in cameo relief.... It was lent in 1810 to the British Museum. While on loan it was vandalized and completely shattered (1845) but was so skillfully reconstructed that little trace of the destruction remains.

    http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0839811.html

    Jun 05 10, 9:19 PM
    crotalus77

    		Here's a photo of it.

    http://heritage-key.com/HKimages/005/Portland_Vase3.jpg

    Jun 06 10, 9:13 AM

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