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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Charger or dish of tin-glazed buff earthenware, standing on a straight sided foot rim, rounded spreading sides, flaring horizontally to form everted outer rim; the whole covered with a pale-blue tinged white tin-glaze and decorated in polychrome colours with two figures, Adam and Eve, outlined in underglaze blue, each naked and holding a large yellow and ochre striped fig-type leaf, both turned with their faces in profile, Eve with elaborately feathered hair, holding a yellow and ochre striped apple toward Adam's outstretched hand; between the couple a tree, with blue trunk, green sponge-printed foliage dotted with yellow and ochre striped fruits and with a serpent, banded in the same colours entwined in the forked branches with an elaborate heart-shaped tail, holding an apple in its mouth toward Eve; on either side of the figures, green sponge-printed foliage with underglaze blue trunksand in the foreground a smaller sponge-printed fruit tree with ochre foliate motifs to either side; the outer rim with two thin blue bands, surmounted by dark-blue sponge-printing to the outer rim.
