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Salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled pew group of Adam and Eve.
Pew group of Adam and Eve. Grey-white salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled with speckled and blistered surface. The pew has a rectangular back, pierced at the bottom by six arched openings, and sloping sides, each pierced at the bottom by one arched opening. The Tree of Knowledge stands in the middle. It has three branches bearing pomegranates and flowers and the Serpent is twined around its cone-shaped side of the Tree. They have long lank hair and wear skirts of leaves. Their hands rest on their abdomens.
History note: Person unknown in Norfolk. Mr Cyril Andrade, from whom Glaisher purchased it on 23rd February 1925
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17.8 cm
Length: 19.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
20th Century
Circa
1900
-
Before
1925
Almost certainly a copy of the Adam and Eve pew group also in the Glaisher Collection C.75-1928
Hand-modelling
: Grey salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled with speckled and blistered surface.
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.75-1928
Primary reference Number: 75973
Old object number: GL. 4853
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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