IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73372
accession number:	C.2332-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 26 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black. The circular plate has an alternately curved and indented rim, deep sloping sides, and flat centre. The middle is decorated with a yellow and orange hot striped air balloon with two men in the blue car suspended below it by ropes. The Both men wear yellow jackets. Theman on the viewer's left has a black hat and is holding a blue pennant. The one on the right holds a yellow pennant. He has lost his tricorne hat which is falling down below the balloon. Just below the outer edge, there is a border of a grey band and a scalloped green band.
object type: Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted with two men in a hot air balloon.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought in Rouen in 1901 by 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/73372


SUBJECTS
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ballooning
aeronaut
tricorne hat
ballooning
aeronaut
tricorne hat



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence
category: faïnce populaire

DATING
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creation date:	1783 - 1785
creation date earliest:	1783
creation date latest:	1785
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 22.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.3



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
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