IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72348 accession number: C.1624-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, turquoise-green, and manganese-purple; the reverse also tin-glazed but with large areas of brown due to over-firing. The front is painted with naively-drawn figures of Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge in which the devil in the form of a green snake is entwined. On either side there is a green sponged bush and in the foreground horizontal areas of manganese-purple and green. The scene is enclosed by two manganese-purple bands. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, turquoise-green, and manganese with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge; two manganese-purple bands round the edge title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Stewart Acton, 12 Prince Albert Street, Brighton from whom purchased for £2.10s. on 3 December 1911 by 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/72348 PEOPLE ------------------- Acton, Stewart, Mr Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- snake tree fruit The Temptation The Fall snake tree fruit The Temptation The Fall CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1690 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1690 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: William III and Mary II culture: William III (1750-1702) CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery maker: unidentified Dutch pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum A Celebration of the English Country House --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1624_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 597 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1624_1928.jpg height: 637 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1624_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 597 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1624_1928.jpg height: 318 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1624_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1624_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1624_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1624_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels