IDENTIFIERS
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id:	12142
accession number:	C.4-1986

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Plate in the form of five oyster shells separated by dolphins, radiating from a small, circular bowl in the centre. On the reverse a low, curved foot supports each shell. The upper surface decorated with pale yellow, pink and purple majolica glazes. The dolphins are covered in shades of pink with eyes and fins picked out in deeper pink. The same pink is used on the outer edges of the shells and around the rim of the central bowl, thicker at the edge and shading away into the depressions, which are tinged with pale yellow. The shape and pearlescence of the inner shells is indicated with a faint application of purple. The reverse clear-glazed.
object type: White earthenware, moulded and glazed.
title:	oyster plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before C.N.P. Powell, by whom given.


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 C.N.P. Powell, DSO, OBE, FRSL, MA,  through the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12142


SUBJECTS
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dolphin
oyster shells
dolphin
oyster shells



TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware, the upper surface decorated with pale yellow, pink and purple glaze.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: Art Pottery
category: majolica ware

DATING
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creation date:	1878 - 1883
creation date earliest:	1878
creation date latest:	1883
culture:	19th Century, Late#
culture:	Victorian

CREATORS
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maker: Wedgwood

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 23.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.7



CITATIONS
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Fine British Pottery & Porcelain, 9 September 2009
English Majolica from a Private Collection
Majolica
Wedgwood
Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959
Wedgwood of Etruria and Barlaston
Wedgwood in London, 225th Anniversary Exhibition 1759-1984
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