IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 12105 accession number: C.16 & A-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 'Windsor Grey' body. The cup, a flattened hemisphere, sits on a narrow recessed foot; it has two loop handles on opposite sides. The saucer (A) has shallow, curved sides with a central depression. The interior of the cup is decorated with `Ballooning' from `Travel' pattern: a turquoise-topped hot air balloon with a tiny figure in its basket, set between grey clouds; the outside is decorated round the top with black weather cones (?) alternating with turquoise semi-circles under curved black lines. The saucer is decorated en suite. object type: Earthenware soup cup and saucer, printed underglaze in black and painted overglaze in pale turquoise enamel. title: soup cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from 'Gabor Cossa', Trumpington Street, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12105 PEOPLE ------------------- Ravilious, Tirzah SUBJECTS ------------------- hot-air balloon sky hot-air balloon sky TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, printed in black and painted in enamel moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Queen's ware DATING ------ creation date: 1954 - 1954 creation date earliest: 1954 creation date latest: 1954 culture: 20th Century, Mid culture: Elizabeth II CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood maker: Ravilious, Eric William CITATIONS -------- Friends' gifts, A twentieth-century focus Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959 Eric Ravilious Memoir of an Artist Wedgwood Wedgwood, The New Illustrated Dictionary Wedgwood in London, 225th Anniversary Exhibition 1759-1984 Wedgwood of Etruria and Barlaston Wedgwood Ware Ravilious and Wedgwood: The Complete Wedgwood Designs of Eric Ravilious Ravilious and Wedgwood Ravilious at the Fry: A guide to his works in The Fry Art Gallery The Bolney Lodge Collection, The Estate of the Late Judge Coles Q.C. --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_20_26_20A_1997_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_16_20_26_20A_1997_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_20_26_20A_1997_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_16_20_26_20A_1997_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1997_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_16_1997_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1997_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_16_1997_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels