Urn vase (chipped): cylindrical, mouth is gold trimmed. The shield is in a classical style divided both per pale and chief style. The upper left quadrant is white with a centered red rose. Upper right is yellow with an organge thistle enframed by its branches. The lower portion is divided by blue (left) and red (right) in each half and in the center is a lion standing on its hind legs brandishing its front feet. The center lion is larger than the other two by about a third. Beneath the shield, written in Old English Style is "Pembroke." Faintly written to the right of the shield is "Oxford 1897-1901" by hand (not by manufacturer). Made by G.H. Gross 1858-1887.
Donor:
University Art Museum (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
Verbatim coll. place:
England, Stoke on Trent
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
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)