Blue dash chargers and other early English tin enamel circular dishes . ful research in the historical lecords of the period, 1 am ofG 97 BLUE DASH CHARGERS opinion that the large number of dishes whichwere issued at the time bearing presentmentsof the well-known picture of the Temptationof Adam and Eve had a political motive. Atno other time had so many of these picturesbeen made, and in nearly every instance in-stead of an apple an orange is shown. Theabdication of James II. and the adoption ofWilliam of Orange would certainly point tothe justification on the part of the religiousbody, so st
Blue dash chargers and other early English tin enamel circular dishes . ful research in the historical lecords of the period, 1 am ofG 97 BLUE DASH CHARGERS opinion that the large number of dishes whichwere issued at the time bearing presentmentsof the well-known picture of the Temptationof Adam and Eve had a political motive. Atno other time had so many of these picturesbeen made, and in nearly every instance in-stead of an apple an orange is shown. Theabdication of James II. and the adoption ofWilliam of Orange would certainly point tothe justification on the part of the religiousbody, so strongly opposed to the adoption,doing all in their power to show to the peopletheir distaste of the change of government. Coming before the period of caricatures,these Adam and Eve dishes would play animportant part in disseminating religious in-tolerance ; and it is difficult to assign anyother reason for their comparative wide dis-tribution ; no doubt they were a set-off againstthe other dishes which bore portraits of Williamand Mary. Frank Falkner.] imh April SHELDON II I 11 1)>M(,\. lu !.,.,? iM,:c .,H TULIP DESIGNS The commonest design on these early chargersis that with the tnlip flower with foliage more orless conventional. Most of these are paintedin blue, green, yellow or orange. The shapeof these chargers is usually concave, but a fewhave a broad flange. Tlie majority of thesewith the tulip design have the yellow^ leadglaze back, though some have the whiteenamel in both shapes. Here are illustrateda pair with the same form of tulips, but ofdifferently shaped pieces. These are the twowhich have their reverse sides photographedand illustrated earlier in the })ook. As a rule the chargers with the tulips havethe blue dashes round the edge. There are,however, a few, illustrated here, with a blueornamentation on the extreme edge, and otherswithout either, but these are rare. Had thisware been of Dutch manufacture, the tulipdesign might be accounted for
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