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Dish: The Temptation
Pottery: unidentified London pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with the Temptation of Adam and Eve and a blue-dash border; the reverse has pale yellow lead-glaze
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale copper-green, yellow, orange and manganese-purple; the reverse, lead-glazed pale yellow. Circular with curved sides and everted rim, standing on a footring which is pierced by a single hole. Adam and Eve stand on either side of the Tree of Knowledge, around which a serpent is coiled. Eve faces front, Adam is shown in three-quarter view with a leaf growing out of the tree hiding his 'nakedness'. The Devil sits at the base of the tree trunk. On either side there is a small three-tier tree. The edge is encircled by a yellow band and blue dashes. Three very small spur marks are in the middle of the front.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Diameter: 43.8 cm
Height: 9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-10) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
17th Century, Late
Charles II
James II
Circa
1670
CE
-
1690
CE
This dish is one of many with blue dashes round the edge, known to collectors as 'Blue Dash Chargers'. The Temptation was one of the most popular subjects which appear on the dishes, but the representation on this one is unusual in having a grotesque figure a squatting at the base of the Tree of Knowledge, probably representing the Devil.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, pale copper-green, yellow, orange and manganese-purple)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( pale yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.182-1932
Primary reference Number: 72709
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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