Word: vase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while it falls on a sofa. Trite shot: a scene of revelry which reaches its peak when Monroe Owsley tries to prove he is sober by walking in a straight line...
...Seventeenth century. It was a time when no phase of Dutch life was too insignificant to find a place on their canvases. A suspicious wife, the visit of an amorous doctor, neighbors gossiping, a bit of landscape, friends playing cards, peasants drinking and quarreling, ships riding at anchor, a vase of flowers, all were depicted with great keenness of observation, sympathy, and consummate skill...
...seldom is the damage irreparable. In the Ryks Museum itself, The Night Watch, perhaps Rembrandt's greatest picture, had a small hole torn in it several years ago. But the most famed cases of art vandalism occurred in the staid British Museum and National Gallery, concerned the Portland Vase and Rokeby Venus...
...Portland Vase remains to this day the property of the Dukes of Portland though it has been on loan to the British Museum since 1810.* It is a blue glass Roman vase of the First Century on which were imposed beautifully carved opaque white figures. When discovered in 1550, the Portland Vase was that ultra rarity among classical antiques, a perfect piece, without a crack. In 1845 a wild-eyed individual, one William Lloyd, suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, smashed it in a hundred pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again...
...present Duke of Portland attempted to sell the vase at public auction. Bids stopped at $147,000. His Grace's agents indignantly withdrew it from sale, returned it to the museum...