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Dish: The Temptation
Pottery:
Limekiln Lane
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Bundy, Josiah
(Possibly)
Proprietor of pottery:
Gaynard, James
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Brislington Pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted and sponged in blue and green and painted in blue, yellow and red with Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, painted and sponged in blue and green, and painted in yellow and red; the reverse is also tin-glaze. Circular with curved sides and slightly everted rim. Decorated with Adam and Eve holding leaves in front of themselves,standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge with a striped serpent twined round the trunk. On the right and left there are low sponged bushes. Round the rim there are two blue lines and blue sponging.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34 cm
Height: 7.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Circa
1730
CE
-
1740
CE
Probably made by the Limekiln Lane pottery in Bristol, or may be at Brislington pottery
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, dark green, yellow, and red)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on both sides, painted and sponged in blue and dark green, and painted in yellow and red; the glaze on the reverse had numerous pinholes and dribbling; three peg marks under the rim
Accession number: C.1620-1928
Primary reference Number: 72339
Old object number: R 989
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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