IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140364 accession number: C.78-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 19 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, puce, reddish-brown, brown, and a little dark brown enamels; the underside has a small circular ventilation hole. The mermaid is supported on a rectangular base with rounded corners and a scrolled edge painted blue and puce. Her front half is sphinx like, and she has long brown hair, dark brown eyes and pale red lips, two green fins on her back, and a green-edged tail which curves upwards to support a shell dish,which is also supported by her backward tilting head. The shell is outlined in puce and blue and has a green leaf at the hinge end. The interior is striped horizontally in puce, yellow and reddish-brown. object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: salt NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa Dickson) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140364 PEOPLE ------------------- mermaid SUBJECTS ------------------- shell shell TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded in parts, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, puce, reddish-brown, and dark brown enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Doccia Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.6 dimension: Height units: in value: 3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 3 5/16 CITATIONS -------- Doccia Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Le porcellane di Capodimonte The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection ---