IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72453
accession number:	C.1686-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 10 April 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware painted mainly in blue with a little olive-green and manganese-purple. Circular with a narrow rim, and shallow well with flat centre.  The middle is decorated with a circular medallion enclosing a scene of a balloon painted in olive-green and manganese in the sky over a garden with a house, a fence and trees, all painted in blue. On the rim there are festoons and floral sprays, and a feathered edge, all in blue.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, manganese-purple and olive-green with a ballooning scene
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72453


SUBJECTS
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balloon
ballooning
balloon
ballooning



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greenish-bluish white, and painted in blue, olive-green and manganese-purple high-temperature (oxide) colours; on the reverse the glaze has pooled near the edge
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1784 - 1786
creation date earliest:	1784
creation date latest:	1786
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 23.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
English Delftware in the Bristol Collection
Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 2, Delftware
Later London delftware 1780-1810
Balloon Madness, Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786
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