IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74082
accession number:	C.28 & A-1996

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Slip-cast earthenware, oval in plan with curved sides rising to a projecting fish-shaped rim with head, tail and fins serving as handles. Slightly domed oval cover with an inward curve at the head end, an upright fin slightly moulded to fit the thumb as handle, and an underside rim which fits into the dish. The lower exterior of the dish has five wavy lines, representing waves. The top of the rim and cover are moulded with scales, and the right end of the rim with the fish's mouth, eye and gill. The whole piece is covered in a matt, apricot glaze, with pale green glaze lightly applied over on fins and tail. The pupil of the eye is painted black. There are three spur marks on the base, and three on the underside of the cover. The underside of the dish is recessed and glazed.
object type: Earthenware, glazed in matt apricot and green and painted with black enamel.
title:	serving dish and cover

NOTES
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type: history note
value: purchased from N.J. Zolman, 1996


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
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74082


SUBJECTS
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fish
fish



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, slip-cast and decorated with coloured glazes.
slip-casting

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1935 - 1935
creation date earliest:	1935
creation date latest:	1935
culture:	20th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Shorter & Son Ltd.
maker: Cliff, Clarice

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 11.0

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 26.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 20.5



CITATIONS
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The Shorter Connection, A.J. Wilkinson, Clarice Cliff, Crown Devon, A Family Pottery 1874-1974
Art Deco Ceramics in Britain,
Clarice Cliff
Art Deco and Modernist Ceramics
Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry 1870-1955
Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920
Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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