IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 177305 accession number: C.119-2010 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 5 October 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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 title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Dame Anne Warburton STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/177305 SUBJECTS ------------------- Devil's Fig Prickly Poppy Devil's Fig Prickly Poppy TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: uncertain DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 1¾ dimension: Length units: cm value: 27.2 dimension: Length units: in value: 10¾ dimension: Width units: cm value: 19 dimension: Width units: in value: 7½