Garden vases
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
limestone
Measurements
625 mm (W)630 mm (D)1335 mm (H)1880 mm (H)
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246939.2
Summary
One of two limestone urns with lids and lions heads. Inscription of extract from Pope's 'Essay on Man' on plinth.
Marks and inscriptions
Honour and shame from no condition rise, /Act well your part, there all honour lies. / Fortune in Men has some small difference made, / One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. / The cobler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, / The friar hooded and the monarch gown'd, / What differ more [you cry] than crown and cowl, / I'll tell you friend! a wise man and a fool. / You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, / Or cobler-like the parson will be drunk, / Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunella. / Pope's Essay on Man (painted on plinth)