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Dish: The Temptation or Fall
Pottery:
Norfolk House
(Possibly)
Pottery:
unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, and yellow
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, sage-green, yellow, and a little red, and sponged in blue. The reverse is lead-glazed over a pale slip. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and everted rim, and stands on a footring. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge around which the Serpent is entwined. On each side there are low sponged bushes and in the foreground, small blue plants on a green ground.
History note: William Austin and Co, 110, Oxford Street, London (a furniture shop), from whom purchased on 9 January, 1904 for £4.4.0. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34.5 cm
Diameter: 13½ in
Height: 8.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Anne
George I
George II
Circa
1705
CE
-
1730
CE
Probably made in a London pottery possibly at Norfolk House, Lambeth
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, sage-green, yellow, and red)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( clear, shiny)
slip
( pale cream)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1617-1928
Primary reference Number: 72314
Old object number: 2565
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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