IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72351
accession number:	C.1627-1928

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, 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
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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
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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/72351

PEOPLE
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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:	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
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maker: Brislington Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 34.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection
CITATIONS
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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
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