A good Bristol delftware Adam and Eve charger, circa 1720-40Painted in blue with the naked figures flanking a tree, Eve reaching to take an apple offered by the striped yellow snake coiled in the lower branches, foliage and bushes sponged in green and blue with yellow fruit, within a narrow sponged blue border, with a tin-glazed back, 33.2cm diamFootnotesFor a similar charger, with a variation of colours but with the same husk-like treatment of the hair, see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p.60. fig.3.35. Another related charger is illustrated by Michael Archer, The Dating of Delftware Chargers, ECC Trans, Vol.11, Pt.2 (1982), p.118 and pl.52e.
A good Bristol delftware Adam and Eve charger, circa 1720-40Painted in blue with the naked figures flanking a tree, Eve reaching to take an apple offered by the striped yellow snake coiled in the lower branches, foliage and bushes sponged in green and blue with yellow fruit, within a narrow sponged blue border, with a tin-glazed back, 33.2cm diamFootnotesFor a similar charger, with a variation of colours but with the same husk-like treatment of the hair, see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p.60. fig.3.35. Another related charger is illustrated by Michael Archer, The Dating of Delftware Chargers, ECC Trans, Vol.11, Pt.2 (1982), p.118 and pl.52e.
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