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Start Over Object name Miniature Donor University Art Museum (UC Berkeley)
Hearst Museum object titled Miniature, accession number 7-10099, described as Bottom described as "Model of Ancient Irish Wooden Noggin" Register #489580. A cylinder with faint horizontal ridges. Opposite side of the crest is a straight handle vertical from the lip flaring out to make an arched top. The shield is in Classic Style, divided Per Fess, the bottom half is light blue with a single mast ship on a green sea; the ship has a Union Jack flag. The top half is divided by an upside down triangle in the middle, blue bells lined up. the right third is white; the left third has a small square in the upper left corner orange with a bell inside. outside the shield holding it are two mythical beasts. on the right is a water horse (horse head, shoulders and front feet of a griffin) chest down of a green scaled serpent; around the neck is a crown. the tail, loops back on itself, is standing on a white filigree branch which curls to help support the shield. on the left is a dog-like creature stepping toward the shield, also standing on a filigree branch. the face is grimacing and wears an ornate crown around the neck. above the shield on a diagonally striped (blue and white), horizontal pole is a small version of the water horse brandishing the griffin hands. draped across the bottom of the shield (by two filigree stands) is a yellow ribbon with Latin "Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus" beneath that in Gaelic "Buel-Feinr Teibelfast". made by W.H. Goss, 1884-1914.

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