IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76590
accession number:	C.2060B-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, two small circular holes, one filled by a metal plug or nail. The crowned, long-haired mermaid reclines with her tail raised and twisted, and her face turned to the right to face the viewer. She has a small fin on the back of her tail, and larger fins on each side of her torso, from which her short arms project. Her hands rest on her rib cage below her breasts. Her hair is brownish-black, and her eyes, one nipple, and tail,except for the fins on its end, are blue. Her side fins are partly blue, and the contours of her crown are outlined in blue. A pair with C.2060A-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  £4.15s on 5 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/76590

PEOPLE
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Weil, Adolf
mermaid




TECHNIQUES
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greyish-buff stoneware, press-moulded, with applied moulded parts, painted in blue (smalt) and brownish-black, and salt-glazed. There is a an oval aperture in the base under the body, with beside it, two small circular holes, one filled by a metal plug or nail
press-moulding

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

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1799
creation date earliest:	1750
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: 16.6



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History
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