dish

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Object Type
Museum number: 1938,0314.109.CR
Description: Dish; tin-glazed earthenware; painted in green, blue and yellowy orange with Adam, Eve and serpent in the Garden of Eden, face appearing in yellow clouds; inscribed and dated; underside buff glazed; three stilt marks on inside.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1648
Production place: Made in: Southwark (probably)
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 35.90 centimetres; Height: 7 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Mactaggart 1959 / English delft Adam and Eve chargers, their earliest dating and derivation (p. 63, fig. 13); Imber 1968 / Collecting European Delft and Faience (p. 111, pl,. 50); Archer 1973 / English Delftware: Engels Delfts aardewerk (no. 25); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (p. 21, fig. 21); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (pp. 96-7, no. 34)
Location: On display (G46/dc10)
Condition: Rim glaze worn and chipped; two hairline cracks and area of restoration on rim.
Subjects: old testament; garden; reptile
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Adam; Representation of: Eve; Representation of: God; Representation of: Serpent
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Garden of Eden
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1938
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1938,0314.109.CR

Free entry