IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72352 accession number: C.1628-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware tin-glazed bluish-white, the front painted and sponged in greyish-blue and green, and painted in yellow and red. Circular with a narrow, slightly everted rim and deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge which is entwined by a yellow serpent and has yellow and orange fruits. On each side there are boulders and low bushes. The rim has a border of two blue lines and blue sponging. There is a small C under the rim. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted and sponged in greyish-blue and green, and painted in yellow and red with The Temptation within a blue sponged border title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unidentified lady; Christies 12 February, 1909, lot 101; bought by S. Fenton, Cranbourn Street, for 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/72352 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware tin-glazed bluish-white on both sides, painted and sponged in blue and green, and painted in yellow and red; three stilt-marks on the front tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Redcliff Back DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.2 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 The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1628_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 588 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1628_1928.jpg height: 646 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1628_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 588 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1628_1928.jpg height: 323 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1628_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1628_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1628_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1628_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels