Specimen Slabs of Irish Marbles
Manufactured by Alexander Colles
Date: 1872
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object type: uncut slabs of marble
Material: stone - marble
Description: 'Specimen slabs of Irish Marbles, suitable for columns, panels, & c., for Cathedrals, &c., quarried and polished by Irish workmen; man. 1872 by Colles, Co. Kilkenny [...] Maguire and Son'
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (and Loan Museum of Works of Art), 1872
£50
Section C, Class 1: Marble, Porcelain and Pottery
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Displayed by Maguire and Son
1872
Exhibited specimen slabs of Irish marbles, manufactured by Colles of Co. Kilkenny. May have been an agent for Colles. Potential end users were ecclesiastical sculptors and church decorators.
Citing this record
'Specimen Slabs of Irish Marbles', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1218447527, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
