A LONDON DELFTWARE POTTERY ADAM AND EVE CHARGER

A LONDON DELFTWARE POTTERY ADAM AND EVE CHARGER

ATTRIBUTED TO NORFOLK HOUSE, C.1720-30

painted in blue, green and yellow with Adam and Eve standing either side of the Tree of Knowledge, with the serpent coiled in the sponged decorated branches, the blue-dash rim with a yellow line

34.8cm diameter

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See Michael Archer, 'Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum', for five related chargers, A32, 33, 35, 36 and 37. It is thought that these chargers were made at Norfolk House.