IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72347 accession number: C.1623-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, painted and sponged in green, and painted in blue, yellow, and red. The reverse is slip-coated and tin-glazed. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge which has yellow fruits with red stripes and a yellow and red striped serpent twined in its branches.Adam and Eve hold large leaves. On the right and left there are three-tiered sponged trees. The rim encircled by two narrow blue bands and broad blue dashes. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, dark green, yellow and red, and sponged in green, with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge, surrounded by two blue bands and blue dash border title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: acquired before 1902 in Clovelly, North Devon, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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/72347 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- snake Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall snake Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, tin-glazed white on the front and painted in blue, dark green, yellow, and red, and sponged in green; three stilt marks. The reverse is coated with a pale slip under tin-glaze, which has been wiped off the footring. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1735 - 1745 creation date earliest: 1735 creation date latest: 1745 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Limekiln Lane maker: Brislington Pottery maker: Bundy, Josiah maker: Gaynard, James DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 33.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum English Furniture and Decorations including the Collection of John L. Boonshaft European Ceramics, 26th November 2002 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1623_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 602 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1623_1928.jpg height: 631 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1623_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 602 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1623_1928.jpg height: 316 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1623_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1623_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1623_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1623_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels