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A striking English delftware Adam and Eve charger, circa 1670-85 image 1
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A striking English delftware Adam and Eve charger, circa 1670-85 image 3
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Lot 81

A striking English delftware Adam and Eve charger, circa 1670-85

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A striking English delftware Adam and Eve charger, circa 1670-85

Probably London, painted in blue, green, manganese and ochre, Eve reaching to take an apple from the devilish snake that encircles the tree, as she passes another apple to Adam, a leafy branch protecting his modesty, the foreground with striped 'paths', a yellow line within the blue-dash rim, with a lead-glazed back, 33.5cm diam

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Provenance
Tristram Jellinek, Sotheby's, 9-10 May 1996, lot 169
With Alistair Sampson, 1997
Graham Slater Collection

The development of 'The Temptation' design on blue-dash chargers is well illustrated by the examples in the Fitzwilliam Museum, see Michael Archer's catalogue, Delftware (2013), pp.16-27 and in particular pl.A.23. Archer notes that the subject on English chargers initially derives from a print by Crispijn de Passe the Elder.

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