Leprechaun Leprechaun A leprechaun () is a type of fairy of the Aos Sí in Irish folklore. They are usually depicted as little bearded men, wearing a coat and hat, who partake in mischief. They are solitary creatures who spend their time making and mending shoes and have a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If captured by a human, they often grant three wishes in exchange for their freedom. Like other Irish fairies, leprechauns may be derived from the Tuatha Dé Danann. Leprechaun-like creatures rarely appear in Irish mythology and only became prominent in later folklore.
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