IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72454 accession number: C.1687-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 17 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale greenish-grey and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple. Circular with a narrow sloping rim, shallow sloping sides and flat centre. The middle is decorated with a hot-air balloon in the sky over a house, trees, and a fence. The rim has a border of green festoons with manganese pendants between them, blue floral sprays, and a blue feathered edge. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow,and manganese-purple title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from the Cambridge dealer Mr Freeman, in May 1889 for 12s. 6d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72454 SUBJECTS ------------------- ballooning hot-air balloon ballooning hot-air balloon TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazed earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed pale greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple high temperature (oxide) colours; the glaze on the reverse is greenish-grey and there are three peg marks on the back of the rim moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1784 - 1786 creation date earliest: 1784 creation date latest: 1786 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.1 CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1687_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 595 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1687_1928.jpg height: 639 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1687_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 595 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1687_1928.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 250 pixels