IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72349 accession number: C.1625-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple, and sponged in blue; the reverse is covered with thick greenish-lead-glaze. Circular with a sloping rim and curved well, standing on a footring. The well is decorated with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge which has yellow fruits and a serpent twined about the upper trunk. On the right and left there are low sponged bushes. The edge is encircled by two narrow manganese bands. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow, and manganese-purple with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge; round the edge, two manganese lines title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Jolley, a Cambridge dealer from whom bought on 28 September 1905 for £4 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/72349 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- snake Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall snake Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple high-temperature colours , and sponged in blue; the reverse is covered with thick greenish-lead-glaze tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ 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 -------- maker: unidentified London pottery maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 13½ dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.9 dimension: Height units: in value: 2 3/8 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_1625_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 608 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1625_1928.jpg height: 625 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1625_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 608 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1625_1928.jpg height: 313 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1625_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_1625_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_1625_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_1625_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels