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Spode Tortoise & Hare Soup Tureen Lid, 1835

 Item — Box: CFC Tableware Box 5
Identifier: CFC2022.0087.1

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

  • 1835

Extent

1 Linear Feet : Spode large soup tureen lid featuring TH. Staffordshire green transferware. Copeland and Garrett -- New Blanche Potteries. ; 11" long x 9" wide x 4¾" tall

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

As Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter at Aesthetic Antiques wrote, "Ornate moulded handle, a plethora of oversized flowers, a famous fable, does it get any better than this?"

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$150 from AestheticAntiques.com, Oct., '22.

  • Printed Fables Webpage

Repository Details

Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository

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