IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72340 accession number: C.1621-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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 object type: tin-glazed earthenware decorated in polychrome with Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Stoner, King Street, St James's, London, from whom bought for £4.0s. 0d. on 19 June 1906 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/72340 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, painted and sponged in blue, and painted in dull green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple; the glaze has been wiped off the footring 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: 35.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1621_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 584 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1621_1928.jpg height: 651 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1621_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 584 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1621_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1621_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1621_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1621_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1621_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels