Figure 20 Tile, Holland, ca. 1650–1680. Delftware. 4.72" x 4.72" (thickness and body color obscured by a frame). A distraught merman is shown searching for something with a torch in each hand. He is anatomically odd in that he has a fin growing out of his right thigh and sagging buttocks resembling female breasts. The remainder of his piscine body, however, is very carefully drawn, as are the ripples around him. The tile has spider corners, two of which are pierced by pinholes.