Bottle. Bottom described as "Model of ancient bottle in Sunderland Museum" Register number #392068. General shape is ellipse (length wise). Two small rounded handles on the "shoulder" of the vase. The neck is a short and straight cylinder with a gold trimmed mouth. The shield is edged shaped is divided in cross style. Althernating blue and yellow. Top left is blue with a lion standing on its hind legs. Outlining the cross is yellow. The top right is yellow with a bull with a green boarder against the cross. Bottom left is yellow with a prasing man (standing with his arms up, wearing a brown robe), the bottom right is blue with a serpand dragon, with a yellow boarder against the white cross. On either side of the shield is a man with fawn legs and angel wings for arms. The outside wing is pulled in with the bottom swooping accross the waist. The inside wing is stretched out over the shield reaching to eachother, creating a triangular shape. Inside this space is a triangulated architectual feature resting on a blue and yellow, diagonally striped pole (horizontal) which balances on the top of the shield. Beneath the shield and supporting the two men, is a yellow ribbon with hebrew script below stating "Grand Lodge of Ireland" Made by G.H. Goss 1884-1914
Donor:
University Art Museum (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Sunderland, North East England
Verbatim coll. place:
England
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Ceramic (material), Paint (coating), and Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles, Dragons, and Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
souvenir
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
length 6 centimeters, height 4.5 centimeters, and width 3 centimeters