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William Hood Posts: 271 |
posted 12-11-2000 12:12 PM
  
I have recently seen some fabulous nineteenth century American fish serving knives decorated with dolphins with anatomically incorrect scales, coiled tails and trifid tailfins. One has to conclude that the designer(s) had never seen a real dolphin and copied earlier examples in art. Do you know where these misrepresentations originated--in ancient Greek art, or? IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 12-11-2000 12:56 PM
This is dolphin the fish (known also as mahi-mahi so that people in restaurants don't make the same mistake and flip out), not dolphin the ocean mammal. But even given that, the model that neo-classical designers used is based on Roman and Greek antiquity and many subsequent translations from the Renaissance and the 18th century) and not on any zoological type. The way you describe the dolphin is just the way it appears on all sorts of decorative arts, from ceramics and glass to silver and furniture legs in the first half of the 19th century. IP: Logged |
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