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Description: | Artist: Lehmann, Kaspar - German glass engraver, gem carver, b.1563-1565, d.1622; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): engraved gems, plaque, wheel-engraving, rock crystal, wheel engraved and set in an enamelled gold frame; Acquisition: given by Dickson, W.D., Mrs, 1930-10-17 [M.9-1930]
Description: Rock crystal, wheel engraved, and set in a lozenge-shaped gold frame enamelled black. Adam and Eve, naked, standing on a grassy mound to each side of an apple tree which has a serpent entwined around the trunk. The serpent offers an apple to Eve who passes it to Adam, whose left hand is outstretched to receive it. Foliate ornament in the angles to right and left. The frame is decorated with gold scrolwork reserved in the black ground. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Lehmann, Kaspar engraved gems plaque | Temporal: | name=17th Century; start=1600; end=1700 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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