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Dish: The Temptation or Fall
Pottery:
Limekiln Lane
Proprietor of pottery:
Bundy, Josiah
(Possibly)
Proprietor of pottery:
Gaynard, James
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Brislington Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware decorated in polychrome with Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge
Buff earthenware tin-glazed bluish-white, painted and sponged in blue, and painted in dull green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. Circular with deep curved sides and narrow slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve holding leaves, standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge in which a red and yellow striped serpent is entwined. On the right and left there are three-tier sponged bushes. Round the rim there is a border of two blue bands and broad blue dashes
History note: Mr Stoner, King Street, St James's, London, from whom bought for £4.0s. 0d. on 19 June 1906
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.7 cm
Height: 7.5 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 at Lime Kiln Lane pottery in Bristol or perhaps at the Brislington pottery
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, dull green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, painted and sponged in blue, and painted in dull green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple; the glaze has been wiped off the footring
Accession number: C.1621-1928
Primary reference Number: 72340
Old object number: 2478
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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