IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72339 accession number: C.1620-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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 title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72339 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- snake Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall snake Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Limekiln Lane maker: Bundy, Josiah maker: Gaynard, James maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III, Important English Pottery, Volume one --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1620_1928_201011_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 951 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_1620_1928_201011_amt49_mas.jpg height: 538 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1620_1928_201011_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 951 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_1620_1928_201011_amt49_mas.jpg height: 269 pixels width: 250 pixels