IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72314 accession number: C.1617-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, sage-green, yellow, and a little red, and sponged in blue. The reverse is lead-glazed over a pale slip. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and everted rim, and stands on a footring. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge around which the Serpent is entwined. On each side there are low sponged bushes and in the foreground, small blue plants on a green ground. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, and yellow title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Austin and Co, 110, Oxford Street, London (a furniture shop), from whom purchased on 9 January, 1904 for £4.4.0. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. 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/72314 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- snake Tree of Knowledge apple The Temptation The Fall snake Tree of Knowledge apple The Temptation The Fall CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1705 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1705 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 18th Century, Early# culture: Anne culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Norfolk House maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34.5 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 13½ dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1617_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 580 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1617_1928.jpg height: 655 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1617_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 580 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1617_1928.jpg height: 328 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1617_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1617_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1617_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1617_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels