A PORTUGUESE DATED AQUAMANILE modelled as as an open-mouthed blue-scaled dolphin resting on its back with yellow-edged open mouth and eyes and umber fins and tail, the tail forming a mouth-piece, resting on a striped scallop-shell, the underside with the date 1620 (pierced, tip of mouthpiece lacking, flaking), 1620, the mounts later

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A PORTUGUESE DATED AQUAMANILE modelled as as an open-mouthed blue-scaled dolphin resting on its back with yellow-edged open mouth and eyes and umber fins and tail, the tail forming a mouth-piece, resting on a striped scallop-shell, the underside with the date 1620 (pierced, tip of mouthpiece lacking, flaking), 1620, the mounts later
21.5cm. wide

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Cf. Jan Baart, Faiança Potuguesa 1600-1660, pl. 9

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