IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72223 accession number: C.1561-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 17 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- 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 --------- 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/72223 PEOPLE ------------------- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre SUBJECTS ------------------- ballooning hot-air balloon hot-air balloon ballooning TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-bluish white, and painted in blue press-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 maker: Mortlake Pottery maker: Isleworth Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.2 CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1561_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 581 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1561_1928.jpg height: 654 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1561_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 581 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1561_1928.jpg height: 327 pixels width: 250 pixels