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Dish: The Temptation
Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Printmaker:
Passe, Crispijn I de
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with the Temptation and a border of blue dashes
Red earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange and manganese-purple. The reverse is coated with pale slip and lead-glazed greenish-yellow. Circular with curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge, with a serpent twined around its trunk and lowest branch. On each side there are small stylized trees and in the foreground grass with yellow patches. Round the outer edge there are two narrow blue circles and narrowly spaced slantng blue dashes. The back is inscribed 'IE' and dated '1640' inside the footring
History note: Mr and Mrs Cater, Colchester; Mrs Cater; sold Sotheby’s, 23 July, 1925, Pottery, Porcelain and Glass, lot 58; bought by Hunt for £42 for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1640
The design was probably derived from a print by Crispin van de Passe (Hollstein, XVI, 1 ad).
The dish is the second earliest recorded which is decorated with The Temptation or Fall
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Rim
Diameter 35.6 cm
dull white
Tin-glaze
red with red inclusions
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Red earthenware with red inclusions, moulded, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple high temperature (metallic oxide) colours; the reverse coated with a pale slip and lead-glazed greenish-yellow
Accession number: C.1401-1928
Primary reference Number: 71930
Old object number: 4575
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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