Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), painted and gilt, with a scene showing the death of Abel. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pair of very rare plates, on one is represented the Building of Babel, with many figures, on the other the Death of Abel., Label on verso: Strawberry Hill; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), painted and gilt, with a scene showing the death of Abel. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Label on verso: 'Walpole Collection Strawberry Hill Sale'; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A Pair of ditto (very rare plates), Adam and Eve and the sacrifice of Isaac., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
This sestertius, originally equivalent to the value of about four asses, was among the many hundreds of ancient coins in Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from dealer's catalog., Date taken from dealer's catalog., Laureate-draped and cuirassed bust r., rev., Victory aug., Victory standing facing, holding wreath and palm (RIC 25)., Balbinus, Roman orator, poet and statesman, appointed in 238 by the Senate as joint emperor of Rome and murdered the same year by soldiers of the Praetorian Guard at Rome. (The New Century Cyclopedia of Names, ed. Clarence L. Barnhard [New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1954] col. 1, p. 318)., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Didius Julian, rare; Albinus, 2; Caracalla, 2; Julia, Mæsa, Alexander, Barbia, Orbiana (very rare); Maximinus, Diva Paulina, rare; Maximus Cæsar, and Balbinus.