<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Glass vessel] [art original].</dc:title><dc:creator>Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[not after 1810]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Drawing of a tall, thin vessel of indeterminate function, pale green in color and sitting upright on its ornate gold base. The opening at the top is edged with gold, below which is an image in gold of a figure riding a horse. To the right of where the base meets the rest of the vessel is a pencil annotation in Thomas Kirgate's hand indicating that this area is made of "blue glass". Presumably a depiction of an object kept by Horace Walpole in the China Room at Strawberry Hill</dc:description><dc:description>Title from local catalog card.</dc:description><dc:description>Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.</dc:description><dc:description>Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, whose annotation is present beside image.</dc:description><dc:description>Inlaid on page 10a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>