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Charger or dish of tin-glazed buff earthenware, standing on a tapered foot rim, spreading, cushion-moulded sides, with everted outer rim edge; the under sides with a thin, clear glaze, the upper portion with a pinkish hued white tin-glaze and decorated in polychrome colours with two figures, Adam and Eve, both outlined in underglaze blue, naked save for yellow leaved garlands, Eve holding a yellow apple with a green leaf in her raised hand, Adam with an empty hand also raised, both with abundant curled hair; between them a tree, with a blue trunk and green crudely executed foliage dotted with yellow circles representing fruit; the trunk entwined by a serpent in underglaze blue, his head above the apple in Eve's hand; to the side, shrub-type foliage, sponge-printed in dark brown, in the foreground, wide green and blue banding; the rim banded with blue and yellow with blue dashes to outer rim.