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Shamrock Basket
Belleek Co
(Factory)
Parian porcelain Shamrock Basket, glazed, hand-modelled and painted overglaze in pink and green enamels.
Parian porcelain Shamrock Basket, hand-modelled, clear-glazed and enamelled in pink and green. Trefoil-shaped with sloping sides, the flat base woven with four strands in each direction; the sides woven with one-strand diagonal trellis. Round the edge of the base there is a double 'rope' edging; round the rim, a single rope edging coloured pink; and round the junction of the sides and base inside, another pink rope edging. Apllied to the rim on each foil, there is a small green leaf, and between each foil, a rose with three leaves and two green buds.
Given by Mr James Richardson
Height: 7 cm
Width: 14 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1994-10-10)
by
Richardson, James
End of 19th century to mid 20th century
Circa
1880
CE
-
1954
CE
Decoration composed of enamel ( pink and green)
Hand-modelling : Parian porcelain, glazed, hand-modelled and painted overglaze in pink and green enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.7-1994
Primary reference Number: 75917
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Shamrock Basket"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75917 Accessed: 2022-05-25 13:15:55
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Accession Number: E.121.1903
Accession Number: HEN.M.292-1933
Accession Number: O.1-2009
Accession Number: E.26a.1939
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