IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77366 accession number: MAR.C.40-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 16 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, flesh pink, greyish-pink, red, pale greyish-brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt. The glazed underside is concave and has two ventilation holes to the left of centre. The oval base has sloping sides and an almost flat top painted here and there with green. At the back on the viewer’s left there is a tall urn-shaped vase with gold edges, and beside it a group of small applied leaves (now chipped off). On the top at the front there is the remnant of a pink flower, and a leaf. The nymph steps forward on her left leg with her upper body in contraposto. She looks and leans downwards and in both hands holds a large shallow shell filled with two mottled pink shells, coral and pearls. Her long greyish-brown hair hangs down in two wavy tresses over her shoulders and at the sides of her head is interwoven with green ribbon and peals. her face is delicated tinted flesh-pink, and she has black eyes, and red lips. Her upper armsare encircled by gilded armbands studded with large white beads, and the lower part of her body is wrapped in a white drape. object type: Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77366 PEOPLE ------------------- nymph SUBJECTS ------------------- pearl vase shell coral pearl vase shell coral TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, painted in green, flesh pink, greyish-pink, red, pale greyish-brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1766 - 1766 creation date earliest: 1766 creation date latest: 1766 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory maker: Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.3 CITATIONS -------- European Ceramics, 9 November 1987 Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Fayence, Steingut, Kacheln, Fliesen, Ein Handbuch --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_MAR_C_40_1912_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_MAR_C_40_1912_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_MAR_C_40_1912_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_MAR_C_40_1912_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_MAR_C_40_1912_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_MAR_C_40_1912_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_MAR_C_40_1912_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/MAR_C_40_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_MAR_C_40_1912_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels