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View full screenVase of Blue John fluorite, large and two-handled, with Sienna marble lower moulding, probably carved by James Shore, Derbyshire, England, late 1840s
G.1983.41.68
Fluorite, variety Blue John, Marble, Vase
Shore, James, 1815 (fl.) - 1833 (d.), Carver
Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England, Northern Europe
Late 1840s
Derbyshire, England, Northern Europe
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Trevor D. Ford, 'The largest Blue John vases ever made', Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society, vol. 11, no. 5, Summer 1992, pp 264-6.
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