IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72709
accession number:	C.182-1932

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale copper-green, yellow, orange and manganese-purple; the reverse, lead-glazed pale yellow. Circular with curved sides and everted rim, standing on a footring which is pierced by a single hole. Adam and Eve stand on either side of the Tree of Knowledge, around which a serpent is coiled. Eve faces front,  Adam is shown in three-quarter view with a leaf growing out of the tree hiding his 'nakedness'. The Devil sits at the base of the tree trunk. On either side there is a small three-tier tree. The edge is encircled by a yellow band and blue dashes. Three very small spur marks are in the middle of the front.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with the Temptation of Adam and Eve and a blue-dash border; the reverse has pale yellow lead-glaze
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72709

PEOPLE
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Adam
Eve
Devil

SUBJECTS
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serpent
Tree of Knowledge
The Fall
The Temptation
serpent
Tree of Knowledge
The Fall
The Temptation



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1670 - 1690
creation date earliest:	1670
creation date latest:	1690
culture:	17th Century, Late
culture:	Charles II
culture:	James II

CREATORS
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maker: unidentified London pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 43.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection
CITATIONS
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English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection
Eating the Forbidden Fruit: Pottery and Protestant Theology in Early Modern England
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Continental Pottery and Important English Pottery
The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware Part I
English Delftware from the John Philip Kassebaum Collection
Fine British & European Ceramics & Glass including the Fritz & Mary Biemann Collection
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