Historical Collections Online
Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
saucer /
One of two saucers, white with rich gold edging, scrolls and sprigs and bunches of flowers in colours. Porcelain de Clignancourt, Montmarte, Paris, France.
commemorative jug / The Ghost
Jug, pottery. Barrel shaped with sharp lip. Creamware with two transfer printed panles of figures, subjects in black. English. Diameter of body 7.5inches, height 11 inches.Featuring scenes, caricatures of a Masonic Lodge, and 'The Ghost'. Probably late 18th / early 19th century.
figure / Roman Soldier
Roman Soldier, porcelain, decorated in colours and gold; standing with left hand resting on shield beside him, and right hand as though holding an upright spear; a long purple cloak, forming the back support. (The base added to, in order to make the figure stand upright). English (Chelsea) 18th...
bust / Voltaire
Bust of Voltaire, porcelain, decorated in colours. English (Staffordshire), late 18th century.
figure / George Washington
Staffordshire figure of George Washington. White glazed pottery; touched with gold, the face tinted; standing, with a three cornered hat under the left arm and an open scroll in the right hand. "Washington" on base. English (Staffordshire) late 18th century.
bust / Napoleon Bonaparte
Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte, enamelled pottery; full face, blue coat with yellow flowered border; marbled pedestal; back has "Bonaparte" impressed. English (Staffordshire) late 18th or early 19th century.
commemorative plate / Success to the Shannon Navigation from Limerick to Athlone, circa 1770s
Plate: pottery, cream-coloured, transfer printed decoration; the centre with inscription 'SUCCESS TO THE SHANNON NAVIGATION FROM LIMERICK TO ATHLONE' within an elaborate rococo frame and below, boats on a river; four groups of birds on border, the edge with raised ornament.
commemorative jug / Robert Armstrong Belfast 1793
Jug, cream coloured pottery. Barrel shaped body with expanding top and base. Plain handle and spout. Decorated on each side with two transfer prints in black, pastoral scenes - a lady seated holding a bow in left hand, two wolfhounds beside her and a landscape with a bridge, figures and trees. ...
commemorative jug / Success to Colonel Butler and Kilkenny Rangers, circa 1780
Jug, earthenware, cream colour. On either side a transfer-printed black intertwined scroll and floral frame. Inside each frame a representation in black transfer of a volunteer in uniform, one facing carrying a musket and the other side in the act of firing. The figures wear black cocked hats with...
commemorative jug / Duke of Leinster
Jug, Staffordshire cream ware pottery, about 1780. Decorated with three black transfer printed designs: 1) Portrait of the second Duke of Leinster, with, above PRINTED AND SOLD BY WALSH AND BARDLEY, DUBLIN and, below HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF LEINSTER. 2) Figures of children playing on steps under an...
commemorative jug / The Virginia / Nathaniel Trumbull, c. 1788
Earthenware jug, Hanley, Staffordshire, c. 1788. Creamware, printed and painted, swelling cylinder body, medium lip, incurved handles. On the obverse is printed a three-mast sailing ship in full sail printed and painted in tones of sepia and grey with figures of crew in red and green. At the...
commemorative jug / Fr. Michael Murphy of Wexford, 1798
Pottery jug, probably Staffordshire, Dublin decorated c. 1898. Coarse, white pottery, glazed. Cylinder body, wide mouth, short lip and broken handle which appears to have been rectangular. Both sides printed in light blue with representation of Fr. Michael Murphy of Wexford in 1798. Fr. Murphy in...
milk jug / Charles Stewart Parnell, 1888
Milk jug, with portrait of Charles Stewart Parnell, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Pear-shaped jug, straight sides, everted collar; pinched-out and moulded spout; waisted and outspread foot; high C-shaped handle. Hibernia printed underneath spout; Hibernia...
sugar bowl / John Dillon, 1888
Sugar bowl, with portrait of John Dillon, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Semi-spherical bowl with upright foot. With a portrait of John Dillon above clasped hands on one face, the figure of Hibernia and a round tower and a wolfhound spaced at three and nine...
commemorative jug / Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen
Jug, possibly Staffordshire. Jug of the "Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen".
commemorative jug / Hibernia's Sons Will Never Flee
Jug, Liverpool. Creamware jug. Transfer printed with Hibernia and a standard bearer on one face and a poem celebrating, "Hibernia's Sons Will Never Flee" on the other.
commemorative jug / William III
Jug, Staffordshire. Highly glazed creamware jug, deep collar, C-shaped handle. Transfer-printed and painted with William III on horseback on one face, and the horoscope names, masonic symbols and "Protestant Ascendancy" on the other.
commemorative mug / 'Who fears to speak of '98', 1898
Mug, Glasgow. Late 19th century. White pottery mug. Transfer printed on either face with "Who fears to speak of '98" in ribbon above sprays of shamrock around a shield enclosing a harp. Trade mark 'Harp' belonging to R. Cochran and Co., Verreville pottery, Glasgow. Commemoration of the 1798...
mug / Fr Mathew, Temperance
Mug, Staffordshire, mid 19th century. Mug with everted sides; hour-glass pedestal foot; and C-shaped handle. Transfer-printed in blue on the outside with the good effects of Fr Mathew's Temperance campaign; and on the inside with a floral border.