1592996613000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-72223 1756231411687 1756214686000 1756231409063 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-72223 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72223 07e5cee6-1288-334e-8706-5ce6873459c6 8 commemorates Blanchard's balloon ascent from Chelsea on 16 October 1784 reference agent-190308 adlib-agent-190308 373bfcc0-9f44-36aa-a56a-9bdace5a88c5 Blanchard, Jean-Pierre reference term-108348 adlib-term-108348 667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02ff tin-glazed earthenware reference term-110399 adlib-term-110399 c2c214aa-c7b2-3bbe-8460-214ed187b114 English delftware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher blue from cobalt reference term-110730 adlib-term-110730 dae0f074-4d74-3f73-9137-7e8bbb36a2ce high-temperature colour Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-26750 adlib-term-26750 5f0d9655-edce-37f3-940c-1519201078bc sgraffito Applied Arts Tin-glazed earthenware depicting the balloon ascent of Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Showing two men seated in a distinctive 'gondola' drifting over a landscape with hills, trees, houses and a lake painted in blue. The blue panels in the border have sgraffito decoration. Greenish blue glaze, over a buff body. C.1561-1928 1 accession number C.1561-1928 72223 priref 72223 Glaisher MS Catalogue, vol. 3 old object number 2671 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72223 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72223 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed the Glaisher ceramic collection was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher's death 1784 1784 CE 1784 circa 1784 1786 Probably made in 1784 or a little later 1 1786 CE 1786 1786 possibly production reference agent-188412 adlib-agent-188412 ef367e4a-3fbe-3a6e-bb27-14c4391ff666 Unidentified Lambeth Pottery possibly pottery reference agent-188460 adlib-agent-188460 a925b00e-4343-341a-8b5d-cf75324c2bb9 Mortlake Pottery possibly pottery reference agent-190311 adlib-agent-190311 0dfd968d-aa81-379d-b40f-bf0138f08d66 Isleworth Pottery The ascent may be that of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, in 1785. Some of his flights took place from Stockwell Road, South Lambeth. This plate could have been made at Lambeth, Mortlake or Isleworth at the date of its production reference term-106779 adlib-term-106779 f0706fcd-d94c-3987-bcb5-f7f794332b6a 18th Century, Late reference term-107437 adlib-term-107437 96f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479 George III reference term-108424 adlib-term-108424 7581123a-2c9b-375a-bf9d-9e2fe0f9ff04 literal England England country Lambeth reference term-115674 adlib-term-115674 b82af2d1-eab5-3310-a2c0-c778deb36831 literal England England country Mortlake reference term-117014 adlib-term-117014 819b6690-134a-3b7b-8604-86186f12d1bd literal England England country Isleworth buff reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware greenish-bluish white reference term-39575 adlib-term-39575 cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4ab tin-glaze Diameter cm 23.2 reference media-169995 adlib-media-169995 dcb3ce0e-6628-37b0-b768-9bac43b4f10a jpeg aa/aa27/C_1561_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 581 1742594981047 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/mid_C_1561_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 654 width pixels 500 1742594981047 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/C_1561_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 581 1742594981047 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/preview_C_1561_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 327 width pixels 250 1742594981047 1 image 0 media image reference term-34935 adlib-term-34935 b6750733-fe79-33fc-b39a-c296fcd223b4 plate ballooning plate history note Mr Richards, Nottingham, from whom purchased for £2.10s.0d. on 5 November 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRs, Trinity College, Cambridge 1 same subject reference object-72454 adlib-object-72454 75c08602-04c6-36b4-980b-c5296debce50

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plate reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. I, p. 196, no. 1561 196 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Publ. p. 161. Here the author states that Glaisher was not known to have taken to the air, but later found that he had made a balloon ascent with his father at the age of ten. 161 reference publication-200000972 adlib-publication-200000972 7f5a96e7-f977-3a54-a682-7562e7be5929 James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector reference publication-7519 adlib-publication-7519 66216bb6-1f3a-3a73-a29c-2d840342ae63 Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-7597 adlib-publication-7597 e17e885e-0a04-3fc5-8a0a-8f18ee38a833 The History of Aeronautics in Great Britain Cf. p. 162, no. 10.50, a similar plate 162 reference publication-2300 adlib-publication-2300 aa6f58fa-97f5-3f6f-888b-78175e14a04b English Delftware in the Bristol Collection Cf. p. 165, no. 164 and fig. 21, a print of Blanchard's fourteenth flight on 26 August 1785 at Lille showing the gondola-shaped basket 165 reference publication-3442 adlib-publication-3442 ebbbd671-d3ca-33e4-810b-c1d7ccdfe299 London Delftware reference publication-8504 adlib-publication-8504 39729268-5bb1-355c-bdf5-a362637c391a Balloon Madness, Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786 reference term-25566 adlib-term-25566 93313112-1f4d-31e7-b058-615d240bbca3 ballooning object name reference term-97178 adlib-term-97178 95f81810-8f1c-3e75-84ae-913adbf39e74 hot-air balloon literal hot-air balloon hot-air balloon literal ballooning ballooning

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plate buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-bluish white, and painted in blue reference term-120085 adlib-term-120085 68c62b7c-aaf4-38a5-a1be-4d6c615c0714 press-moulding greenish-bluish white reference term-120059 adlib-term-120059 dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7 tin-glazing object OBJECT