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The Temptation
Pottery: Rotherhithe Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted blue, pale green, orange, and manganese-purple with Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, pale green, orange, and manganese-purple. Circular with curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. Decorated in the middle with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge entwined by a serpent and flanked by smaller stylized trees. The foreground has dark yellow paths and green grass. Round the edge are four concentric blue circles and blue dashes. The reverse has clear green-tinged pale brown lead-glaze.
History note: Not known, but probably acquired before 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 37.3 cm
Height: 7.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Commonwealth
Production date:
circa
AD 1650
Made in Southwark, probably at Rotherhithe
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( creamy-white)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
Accession number: C.1405-1928
Primary reference Number: 71937
Old object number: 699
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Temptation" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71937 Accessed: 2024-04-24 11:32:42
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Accession Number: C.2804.47-1928
Accession Number: C.1616-1928
Accession Number: C.217-1991
Accession Number: C.1626-1928
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