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Ballooning Plate
Production: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenare painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greenish-white, 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 scene showing a yellow hot-air balloon in the sky over a house, trees, and a fence. The rim is decorated with a border of green festoons with purple pendants between them, blue floral sprays and a blue feathered edge.
History note: Mr Freeman's sale of 27 January 1904, where bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1784
CE
-
1786
CE
Probably made in Lambeth at either the Lambeth High Street or Glasshouse Street potteries. The design was probably inspired by Vincenzo Lunardi's balloon ascent from Moorfields, London in 1784 or several ascents he made from St St George's Fields, Southwark in 1785.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple high-temperature (oxide) colours; there are many pin-holes in the glaze on the reverse
Tin-glazing
Painting
Accession number: C.1688-1928
Primary reference Number: 72455
Old object number: 1916
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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