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Dish: The Temptation or Fall
Production: Norfolk House (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, pale green, and yellow with the Temptation
Buff earthenware tin-glazed and painted in blue, pale green, and yellow, and sponged or dabbed in blue. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring.The back has a pronounced groove on the upper part of the well, dull tin-glaze with spots, smudges, and dark misfired patches near the rim. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve on either side of the Tree of Knowledge flanked by low sponged or dabbed bushes, surrounded by a border of a blue zig-zag between yellow bands, with groups of three ovals in each apex, and round the edge, blue dashes.
History note: W. Smedley Aston, Erdington, Warwickshire; Mr Stoner from whom bought on on 28 November 1910 for £15 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 42 cm
Height: 10.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Anne
George I
Circa
1702
CE
-
1720
CE
The zig-zag border is unusual
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, pale green and yellow)
buff
Earthenware
the back grey and speckled black and blue
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the front, and painted in blue, pale green, and yellow; three stilt marks in the middle. The back has dull tin-glaze with blue spots, smudges, and dark misfired patches near the rim; the glaze has been partly wiped off the footring which is pierced by two holes close together.
Accession number: C.1614-1928
Primary reference Number: 72311
Old object number: 3317
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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