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Dish: The Temptation or Fall
Pottery: Norfolk House (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and red with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, and red. The reverse has brownish-white tin-glazed. Circular with curved sides with a groove on the upper part of the well on the underside, and a slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. Decorated on the front with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge which has red fruits, and a serpent entwined in its branches. To the right and left there are sponged blue trees, and on the green foreground, blue plants. Round the rim there is a blue band, a wider yellow band, and blue dashes.
History note: Bought in Saffron Walden in 1898 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 29.8 cm
Height: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Anne
George I
Circa
1705
CE
-
Circa
1730
CE
Probably made by one of the London potteries, possibly Norfolk House at Lambeth
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and red)
Dec Oration
brownish-white on reverse
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1619-1928
Primary reference Number: 72319
Old object number: 988
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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