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Thetis
Factory:
Frankenthal Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Linck, Franz Conrad
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, and silvered; a pair with EC.51-1943
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted in bluish-green, pale green, green, flesh-pink, pale salmon pink, red, purple, brown, grey and a little black enamel, silvered, and gilded. The glazed underside is open and has a short supporting wall near the front. The approximately oval mound base has a scrolled edge picked out in gold, and on the right has a brown urn spewing forth water. The top is rippled to represent water or seaweed. Thetis stands on her right leg with her left foot resting on the urn. Her head is tilted to her right. She holds a small shell in her left hand which is extended in front of her, and with her right, holds a large shell with a purple interior filled with small shells, coral and seaweed which rests on her right hip. She has long grey hair, black brows and eyes, pink cheeks and red lips. On her head she has a wreath of sea weed with a white shell at the front. Her silver tunic reveals her right breast and arm, and on the top edge has a green turn back or scarf, bound with ropes of pearls. Round her left sleeve she has a matching looped up green scarf. Her white skirt is decorated with narrow gold stripes entwined by stems of stylized flowers, and is looped up to reveal her lower left leg. Attached to the back of her right shoulder by means of a green garland is a long green cloak lined with pale salmon pink with a pale green moss-like edging. Her sandals are also green.
History note: Purchased from Mr (Frank?) Stoner in London on 14 May 1917 with Thetis for £135 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge; taken by Mrs W.D. Dickson on his death in accordance with the provisions of his Will.
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 26.5 cm
Width: 15.4 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1943) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
3rd quarter 18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration
composed of
enamel
silver
Decorataion
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded in parts, assembled, glazed, and painted in bluish-green, pale green, green, flesh-pink, pale salmon pink, red, mauve, brown, grey and a little black enamel, silvered Onow oxydized to black), and gilded. The base is open underneath and has a short supporting wall near the front.
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: six in blue and seven in purple
Inscription present: circular white paper label printed in black round the edge with the wording and hand-written in the middle with the number
Accession number: EC.52-1943
Primary reference Number: 140443
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Thetis" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140443 Accessed: 2022-09-28 21:36:58
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Accession Number: EC.30-1938
Accession Number: EC.51-1943
Accession Number: C.36-1935
Accession Number: CM.1417-2009
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