IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76589
accession number:	C.2060A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 20 April 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Greyish-buff stoneware, press-moulded, with applied moulded parts, painted in blue and brownish-black, and salt-glazed. There is a an oval aperture in the base under the body. with beside it a small circular hole filled by a metal plug or nail. The crowned, long-haired mermaid reclines, with her tail twisted upwards, and her head turned towards the viewer. She has a small fin on her back and on each side of her waist a larger fin from which her short arms project. Her hands rest on her rib cage below her breasts. Her hair is coloured brownish-black. The outlines of her crown, her eyes, and tail except for the fins at the end are blue, and the fins at her sides partly blue. a pair wit C.2060B-1928
object type: greyish-buff stoneware moulded in the shape of a crowned mermaid, painted in blue and brownish-black, and salt-glazed
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Adolf Weil, Maximilianplatz, Munich, from whom bought for £2.15s. in August 1909 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


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:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76589





TECHNIQUES
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greysh-buff stoneware, press-moulded with applied moulded crown, fins, and arms, painted in smalt and brownish-black, and salt-glazed
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: salt-glazed stoneware
category: German stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1799 - 1799
creation date earliest:	1799
creation date latest:	1799
culture:	18th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Westerwald pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 17.1



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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