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Duck
Production: Unidentified Delft factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in dark blue, dark yellow, green, and manganese-purple
Buff earthenware, moulded in the shape of a swimming duck with its left wing raised vertically, resting on an oval base with a wavy edge which is slightly concave underneath and had a central ventilation hole. The duck os painted mainly in yellow with green markings. Its head is purple, and its wings have short purple feathers outlined in blue, and longer yellow and green feathers.
History note: Vendor in Cambridge; Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, from whom purchased with its companion for £15 on 28 August 1927 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.4 cm
Length: 21.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1750
CE
-
1775
CE
This duck is almost similar to C.2754-1928 in its form, but the base is a different shape, and it is decorated in different colours
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2753-1928
Primary reference Number: 74025
Old object number: 4950
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Duck" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74025 Accessed: 2024-11-13 06:40:09
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