English Delftware charger with the Temptation of Adam

An image of English Delftware. Dish/Charger. The Temptation. Probably made by the Limekiln Lane pottery in Bristol, or at Brislington pottery. Bundy, Josiah, Gaynard, James, proprietors of pottery. Decorated with Adam and Eve holding leaves in front of themselves, standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge with a striped serpent twined round the trunk. On the right and left there are low sponged bushes. Round the rim there are two blue lines and blue sponging. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on both sides, painted and sponged in blue and dark green, and painted in yellow and red; the glaze on the reverse had numerous pinholes and dribbling; three peg marks under the rim, height, whole, 7.4 cm, diameter, whole, 34 cm, circa 1730-1740.

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English Delftware. Dish/Charger. The Temptation. Probably made by the Limekiln Lane pottery in Bristol, or at Brislington pottery. Bundy, Josiah, Gaynard, James, proprietors of pottery. Decorated with Adam and Eve holding leaves in front of themselves, standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge with a striped serpent twined round the trunk. On the right and left there are low sponged bushes. Round the rim there are two blue lines and blue sponging. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on both sides, painted and sponged in blue and dark green, and painted in yellow and red; the glaze on the reverse had numerous pinholes and dribbling; three peg marks under the rim, height, whole, 7.4 cm, diameter, whole, 34 cm, circa 1730-1740.

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Accession Number: C.1620-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 951 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 337.43kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2053:01:18 14:36:29

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18th Century Adam Adam and Eve Artist/Maker Bible Brislington Pottery Date Delftware Department Eden English English Delftware Eve Fall of Adam Fitz_AA Garden of Eden Genesis Georgian Limekiln Lane Pottery Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Old Testament Other Keywords People Places Names Predominant Colours Temptation of Adam Tree of Knowledge Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_PCtd apples biblical blue and white charger circular dish earthenware expulsion expulsion from Paradise fall of man female female nude fruits glazed male male nude nude nudity painted paradise pottery religion religious round serpent snake sponged sponging temptation temptress tin-glazed trees woman

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