IDENTIFIERS
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id:	226784
accession number:	C.57-2023

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 7 May 2019
updated:	Tuesday 16 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Circular dish with curved sides. The whole surface covered with a design in shades of red on a white ground,  showing a cherub paddling a small boat and looking down at two mermaids, one of whom is catching his paddle, against a background of stylised sea, waves and giant sun; seven stylised fish chase each other around the rim. The outside of the dish is covered with concentric bands, alternately ruby and silver-yellow; within these is a a thin foot-rim.
object type: White earthenware, glazed and painted with silver-yellow and ruby lustre.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Lent by Rita Smythe, 2018


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Smythe
creditline: Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/226784

PEOPLE
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Passenger, Fred
Ricardo, Halsey




TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware, slip-coated, glazed and painted with lustres
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lustreware
category: Art Pottery

DATING
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creation date:	1888 - 1897
creation date earliest:	1888
creation date latest:	1897
culture:	Victorian
culture:	19th Century, Late#

CREATORS
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maker: De Morgan, William Frend
maker: Passenger, Charles
maker: William De Morgan & Co.

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 23

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.4



CITATIONS
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The Designs of William De Morgan
The Ceramics of William De Morgan
William De Morgan
William De Morgan Tiles
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