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The Temptation
Unknown
(Probably)
Printmaker:
Beham, Hans Sebald
(Maker of woodcut)
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white and faintly tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, reddish-orange, brown, black, and white.
Shape 51. Circular with a wide sloping rim and small shallow central depression.
The Temptation. On the right, Eve sits on a bank, her right hand raised as she looks towards the Serpent which is entwined round the Tree of Knowledge; with her left hand she offers the fruit to Adam who is seated on a rock on the left, holding out his left hand to take it. In the foreground there are rocks, bushes and grass; behind Adam and Eve, shrubs, distant mountains and sky. The edge is yellow. On the back `Adamo et eua.' is inscribed in the middle in dark blue. The base is encircled by one yellow band and the rim by two.
Given by A. von Hügel
Diameter: 23.3 cm
Height: 3.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1914) by Hügel, A. von
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1555
CE
-
1570
CE
Probably made in Urbino, or possibly in Venice. The source of the design was the woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham in Biblisch Historien, Frankfurt-am-Main (Christian Egenolph), 1533 or one of seven later editions, the last in 1557
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, reddish-orange, brown, black, and white)
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white and faintly tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, reddish-orange, brown, black, and white.
Inscription present: Adamo (with dash over top of o) et eva
Inscription present: square
Accession number: C.1-1914
Primary reference Number: 71492
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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