Sweetmeat Dish
ca. 1868 (made)
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Sweetmeat dish of parian porcelain with an iridescent glaze, partly coloured pale yellow. Modelled in the form of one valve of a clam shell, supported on a heap of murex, cerithium, dolium and other smaller shells and seaweed.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Parian porcelain with an iridescent glaze |
| Brief description | Sweetmeat dish, parian porcelain with an iridescent glaze, Belleek pottery, Fermanagh, ca. 1868 |
| Physical description | Sweetmeat dish of parian porcelain with an iridescent glaze, partly coloured pale yellow. Modelled in the form of one valve of a clam shell, supported on a heap of murex, cerithium, dolium and other smaller shells and seaweed. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Production | 3881-1901 to 3892-1901 purchased April 1868 by the Museum of Practical Geology |
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| Bibliographic reference | Langham, Marian, 'Belleek Irish Porcelain' Quiller Press, 1993 |
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| Accession number | 3887-1901 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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