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Pew Group: The Temptation or Fall
Maker: Unknown
White salt-glazed stoneware, moulded and hand-modelled figure group of 'The Fall' with eyes in brown slip
White salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled with details in brown slip. Adam and Eve are standing in front of a high-backed settle on either side of a stylized tree with applied apples and leaves, and the serpent coiled round the lower part of the trunk. Eve holds an apple in her hand. Both are clothed in a short skirt of leaves. The eyes of both and blushes on the cheeks of Eve are rendered in spots of dark brown slip.
History note: Turner Collection, Loughborough; Cyril Andrade, Ryder Street, London, from whom purchased on 31 October 1913 for £380 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher in London, 1913
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.3 cm
Width: 17.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1740
-
1750
Judging by the blushing cheeks and well-developed breasts, the larger figure on the right is Eve.
This pew group is the only one known which does not show figures in contemporary costume.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
white and brown Stoneware
Hand-modelling
: Off-white salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled, with details in brown slip
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.777-1928
Primary reference Number: 76039
Old object number: 3673
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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