IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75973 accession number: C.75-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled pew group of Adam and Eve. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Person unknown in Norfolk. Mr Cyril Andrade, from whom Glaisher purchased it on 23rd February 1925 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/75973 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- serpent Tree of Knowledge pomegranate serpent Tree of Knowledge pomegranate TECHNIQUES ---------- Grey salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled with speckled and blistered surface. hand-modelling TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1900 - 1925 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1925 culture: 20th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 19.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_75_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_75_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_75_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_75_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_75_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_75_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_75_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_75_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_75_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_75_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_75_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_75_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels