IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72351 accession number: C.1627-1928 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, green, yellow, and manganese-purple; the back lead-glazed brownish-yellow over pale slip. Circular with deep curved sides and narrow, slightly everted rim, standing on a wide footring. The front is painted with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge in which the devil in the from of a snake is entwined. The fruits and foliage of the tree are treated as if they formed petalled flowerheads. On each side of the figures there is a blue stylized bush formed by vertical strokes. The edge is encircled by two faint blue bands and slanting blue dashes. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple with Adam and Eve on either side of the Tree of Knowledge; blue dash border title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: T. Wakefield, Birmingham; his collection sold at Sotheby’s 27 November, 1925, lot 27;bought for £17 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/72351 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- snake tree fruit The Temptation The Fall snake tree fruit The Temptation The Fall CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Charles II culture: James II culture: William III and Mary II culture: William III (1750-1702) CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7 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_1627_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 562 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1627_1928.jpg height: 676 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1627_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 562 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1627_1928.jpg height: 338 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1627_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1627_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1627_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1627_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels