IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140443 accession number: EC.52-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 18 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted in bluish-green, pale green, green, flesh-pink, pale salmon pink, red, purple, brown, grey and a little black enamel, silvered, and gilded. The glazed underside is open and has a short supporting wall near the front. The approximately oval mound base has a scrolled edge picked out in gold, and on the right has a brown urn spewing forth water. The top is rippled to represent water or seaweed. Thetis stands on her right leg with her left foot resting on the urn. Her head is tilted to her right. She holds a small shell in her left hand which is extended in front of her, and with her right, holds a large shell with a purple interior filled with small shells, coral and seaweed which rests on her right hip. She has long grey hair, black brows and eyes, pink cheeks and red lips. On her head she has a wreath of sea weed with a white shell at the front. Her silver tunic reveals her right breast and arm, and on the top edge has a green turn back or scarf, bound with ropes of pearls. Round her left sleeve she has a matching looped up green scarf. Her white skirt is decorated with narrow gold stripes entwined by stems of stylized flowers, and is looped up to reveal her lower left leg. Attached to the back of her right shoulder by means of a green garland is a long green cloak lined with pale salmon pink with a pale green moss-like edging. Her sandals are also green. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, and silvered; a pair with EC.51-1943 title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mr (Frank?) Stoner in London on 14 May 1917 with Thetis for £135 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge; taken by Mrs W.D. Dickson on his death in accordance with the provisions of his Will. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140443 PEOPLE ------------------- Thetis TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded in parts, assembled, glazed, and painted in bluish-green, pale green, green, flesh-pink, pale salmon pink, red, mauve, brown, grey and a little black enamel, silvered Onow oxydized to black), and gilded. The base is open underneath and has a short supporting wall near the front. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Frankenthal Porcelain Factory maker: Linck, Franz Conrad DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.4 CITATIONS -------- German Porcelain James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector Frankenthaler Porzellan German Porcelain of the 18th Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_52_1943.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 521 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_EC_52_1943.jpg height: 729 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_52_1943.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 521 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_EC_52_1943.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 250 pixels