- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Blue glass sea-horse, used as a charm. [SM 25/02/2011]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 100 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.538 Other numbers: A 177235 AM C lot 242
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour in the pamphlet accompanying the Reading Room displays at the Welcome Collection with the caption “Seahorse Blue glass Italy RRa0174/1985.51.538 Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.’ [FB 15/8/2016] Illustrated in colour on page 201 in ‘Reading Room Companion consisting of a rare and valuable collection of diverse curiosities acquired by and for Henry Wellcome with a great variety of books’ Written and compiled by Anna Faherty published in 2014 by the Wellcome collection, London with the caption “Glass seahorse and miniature aluminium gondola prow Italy RRa0174, RRa0188/1985.51.538, 1951.871 Pitt Rivers Museum “When I was in Venice, one of the first things that struck me was that every gondola had a brass sea horse on each gunwale, and facing the bow… I am very much inclined to believe that the curious white metal prow of this remarkable boat is evolved from a seahorse.” Edward Lovett in Magic in Modern London, 1925.” [FB 15/8/2016]
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