Culture of the United Kingdom Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname "Nessie" since the 1950s. The leprechaun figures large in Irish folklore. A mischievous fairy-type creature in emerald green clothing who when not playing tricks spends all its time busily making shoes, the leprechaun is said to have a pot of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow, and if ever captured by a human it has the magical power to grant three wishes in exchange for release. In mythology, English fairy
Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship with no lid, the "cuvette à masques", produced from 1754 (earliest example, at Houghton Hall), and the shape of the "pot pourri à vaisseau" was also used in an adaptation as a lidded tureen with a stand, the "terrine gondole" from at least 1757 (two in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna), and a different "pot pourri gondole". The popularity of Sèvres porcelain with English collectors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is demonstrated by the presence of all ten known examples of this shape of vase in English collections by the mid-nineteenth century. Today there is one in France, five