IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72223
accession number:	C.1561-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Saturday 17 June 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr Richards, Nottingham, from whom purchased for £2.10s.0d. on 5 November 1907 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/72223

PEOPLE
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Blanchard, Jean-Pierre

SUBJECTS
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ballooning
hot-air balloon
hot-air balloon
ballooning



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-bluish white, and painted in blue
press-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
maker: Mortlake Pottery
maker: Isleworth Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 23.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
The History of Aeronautics in Great Britain
English Delftware in the Bristol Collection
London Delftware
Balloon Madness, Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786
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