IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74327 accession number: C.30-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware dish moulded in the shape of a fish, oval in plan with deep curved sides and rim. The interior is moulded with scales, a fin, and the mouth, eye and gill of the fish. Three spur marks on underside at top and bottom and on one tail fin. The whole piece is covered in a matt, apricot glaze, with pale green glaze lightly applied over on fins and tail and the pupil of the eye painted black. object type: Earthenware serving dish in the shape of a fish glazed in matt apricot and green, and painted with black enamel. title: serving dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: purchased from N.J.Zolman, 1996 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74327 SUBJECTS ------------------- fish fish TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded, covered with matt pale apricot glaze overall, and painted with green glaze on the fins, and with black enamel on the eye. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1935 - 1935 creation date earliest: 1935 creation date latest: 1935 culture: 20th Century culture: 1930s CREATORS -------- maker: Shorter & Son Ltd. maker: Cliff, Clarice DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 37.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 28.3 CITATIONS -------- The Shorter Connection, A.J. Wilkinson, Clarice Cliff, Crown Devon, A Family Pottery 1874-1974 Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry 1870-1955 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_30_1996.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_30_1996.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_30_1996.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_30_1996.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels