IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72348
accession number:	C.1624-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, turquoise-green, and manganese-purple; the reverse also tin-glazed but with large areas of brown due to over-firing. The front is painted with naively-drawn figures of Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge in which the devil in the form of a green snake is entwined. On either side there is a green sponged bush and in the foreground horizontal areas of manganese-purple and green. The scene is enclosed by two manganese-purple bands.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, turquoise-green, and manganese with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge; two manganese-purple bands round the edge
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr Stewart Acton, 12 Prince Albert Street, Brighton from whom purchased for £2.10s. on 3 December 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72348

PEOPLE
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Acton, Stewart, Mr
Adam
Eve

SUBJECTS
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snake
tree
fruit
The Temptation
The Fall
snake
tree
fruit
The Temptation
The Fall



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1690 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1690
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century, Late
culture:	William III and Mary II
culture:	William III (1750-1702)

CREATORS
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maker: unidentified London pottery
maker: unidentified Dutch pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 34.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 5.6



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
A Celebration of the English Country House
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