Plate with Border of Irish Harps and Shamrocks

Description

A circular pearlware plate. It is decorated with a harp and shamrock motif impressed on the border around the rim and a painted zebra in the centre. ?Irish, Belfast.

Object data

Accession number

HCL 061

Creator

Ireland

Date made

19th century AD

Materials

Ceramic; Pottery; Earthenware; Pearlware

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Place of collection

Technique

Copyright Attribution

Plate with Border of Irish Harps and Shamrocks | Ceramic,Pottery,Earthenware,Pearlware | 19th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

Provenance

File of material relating to object described as a pearlware plate. Includes photocopy of object description sheet which includes sketch of object (date unspecified); incomplete photocopy of letter (29 January 1996) from Peter Francis, Institute of Ireland Studies, Queens University, Belfast, to Mairead Dunlevy, National Museum of Ireland, and Michael Holland, Registrar, Hunt Museum, which comments on objects in the Hunt Museum. Francis also encloses photocopy of extract from notes (18 January 1996) which describe features of the object and states that attribution of the plate to Downshire, Belfast, is problematic; photocopy of extract from paper by Francis entitled 'The Downshire Pottery,' an offprint from the transactions of 'English Ceramic Circle' (volume 15, part 3, 1995) which contains image of similar plate held by the National Museum of Ireland.

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