Vase

A cylindrical vase with a pair of barley sugar twist handles. There is a ring just below the slightly flared rim. The item is wheel-engraved with a warship inscribed: H.M.S. GOLIATH' above and a bust portrait of a naval officer facing left within an oval border. Above the latter is inscribed: ' CAPTAIN SIR Charles H. KNOWLES BART.'

Object Details

ID: GGG0219
Type: Vase
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Goliath (1781)
Date made: 20th century ?
People: Knowles, Charles Henry
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Jacobs Collection
Measurements: Overall: 255 x 235 x 127 mm
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