IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131181 accession number: EC.23-1941 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 2 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain Crayfish Salt, moulded and painted in red, yellow, green, brown and black enamels. The salt is formed of a deep open, oval shell, resting on a rocky mound base modelled with seaweed, and applied with crustacea, a large naturalistic crayfish flanking the shell. The whole is painted in naturalistic colours. object type: Soft-paste porcelain Crayfish Salt, moulded, and painted naturalistically in enamels title: salt NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Bellamy Gardner collection; sold Sotheby’s, 12 June 1941, Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner, lot 4 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the National Art Collections Fund as Trustee of the R S Cochrane Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131181 SUBJECTS ------------------- crayfish seaweed crayfish seaweed TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded and painted overglaze in red, yellow, green, brown, and black enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7 dimension: Height units: in value: 2 3/4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 4 1/2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the Property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg Chelsea Porcelain, the Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares Chelsea, The Triangle Wares Chelsea China from Private Collections Catalogue of English Pottery and Porcelain Fine British Ceramics Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . . 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