IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72353 accession number: C.1629-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, painted and sponged in blue, and painted in green, yellow and brownish red. Circular with a wide sloping rim and curved well, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with Adam and Eve standing to the left of the Tree of Knowledge with a sponged two-tier tree further to the left. Eve is shown in profile with her back to the Tree. Round the edge there are blue and yellow bands and blue dashes. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted and sponged in blue, and painted in green, yellow, and brownish-red with Adam and Eve standing beside the Tree of Knowledge title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby’s 19 May, 1927, Porcelain and pottery, objects of vertu, boxes, tea caddies, lot 81; bought by Hunt for 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/72353 PEOPLE ------------------- Adam Eve SUBJECTS ------------------- Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall Tree of Knowledge The Temptation The Fall TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware the front tin-glazed and painted and sponged in blue, and also painted in dull green, yellow, and brownish-red; the back has tin-glaze with thick dribbles radiating from the foot and many bubble holes around the outer edge, and three finger marks at one point near the edge tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, Early# culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection CITATIONS -------- Porcelain and pottery, objects of vertu, boxes, tea caddies 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_1629_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 588 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1629_1928.jpg height: 646 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1629_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 588 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1629_1928.jpg height: 323 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1629_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_1629_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_1629_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_1629_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels