Lot Essay
Cf. a closely similar example sold in these Rooms, 20 May 1991, lot 162.
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CIRCA 1730
Details
A Bristol delft blue-dash Adam and Eve charger
Circa 1730
The unfortunate couple standing each holding a leaf and flanking the tree with the serpent about its trunk, Eve holding an apple and with other striped apples in the sponged green foliage above with further trees to each side, within a blue-dash rim (slight crack and chip and minor flaking to rim, slight chips to footrim)
13. in. (33 cm.) diam.
Circa 1730
The unfortunate couple standing each holding a leaf and flanking the tree with the serpent about its trunk, Eve holding an apple and with other striped apples in the sponged green foliage above with further trees to each side, within a blue-dash rim (slight crack and chip and minor flaking to rim, slight chips to footrim)
13. in. (33 cm.) diam.