Factory: uncertain
Soft-paste porcelain moulded, and painted in green and yellow enamels with a flower, bud, and foliage, and gilt. The name of the plant, ‘Devils Fig./or Prickly Poppy is inscribed on the base in pale purple enamel
Soft-paste porcelain (? bone china), moulded, and painted overglaze in green and yellow enamels and gilt. The glaze on the reversr is rather speckly. Oval with four shallow lobes, and shallow curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated in the middle with a yellow flower on a stalk with leaves and a prickly bud, and round the edge with a broad band of gilding. The name of the plant, ‘Devils Fig./or Prickly Poppy' is inscribed on the base in pale purple enamel.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Dame Anne Warburton
Height: 4.5 cm
Height: 1¾ in
Length: 27.2 cm
Length: 10¾ in
Width: 19 cm
Width: 7½ in
Method of acquisition: Given (2010-06-07) by Warburton, Anne, Dame
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1790
CE
-
1810
CE
Place of origin not yet identified
Decoration composed of enamel ( green and yellow) gold
might be bone china
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Accession number: C.119-2010
Primary reference Number: 177305
Entry form number: 1038
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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