IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 12139 accession number: C.3-1986 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Plate in the form of five oyster shells separated by dolphins, radiating from a small, circular bowl in the centre. On the reverse a low, curved foot supports each shell. The upper surface decorated with pale yellow, pink and purple majolica glazes. The dolphins are covered in shades of pink with eyes and fins picked out in deeper pink. The same pink is used on the outer edges of the shells and around the rim of the central bowl, thicker at the edge and shading away into the depressions, which are tinged with pale yellow. The shape and pearlescence of the inner shells is indicated with a faint application of purple. The reverse clear-glazed. object type: White earthenware, moulded and glazed. title: oyster plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before C.N.P. Powell, by whom given. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by C.N. P.Powell, DSO, OBE, FRSL, MA, through the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12139 SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin oyster shells dolphin oyster shells TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, the upper surface decorated with pale yellow, pink and purple glaze. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: majolica ware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1878 - 1883 creation date earliest: 1878 creation date latest: 1883 culture: Victorian culture: 19th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.7 CITATIONS -------- Fine British Pottery & Porcelain, 9 September 2009 English Majolica from a Private Collection Majolica Wedgwood Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959 Wedgwood of Etruria and Barlaston Wedgwood in London, 225th Anniversary Exhibition 1759-1984 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_3_1986.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_3_1986.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_3_1986.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_3_1986.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels