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Ballooning Plate
Production: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, manganese-purple and olive-green with a ballooning scene
Buff earthenware painted mainly in blue with a little olive-green and manganese-purple. Circular with a narrow rim, and shallow well with flat centre. The middle is decorated with a circular medallion enclosing a scene of a balloon painted in olive-green and manganese in the sky over a garden with a house, a fence and trees, all painted in blue. On the rim there are festoons and floral sprays, and a feathered edge, all in blue.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.2 cm
Height: 3.2 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. The ballooning scene was probably inspired by Vincenzo Lunardi's first balloon ascent from Moorfields in London in 1784, or one of several he made from St George's Fields, Southwark in 1785, but the landscape has a slightly Chinoiserie appearance.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, olive-green, manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
greenish-bluish-white
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greenish-bluish white, and painted in blue, olive-green and manganese-purple high-temperature (oxide) colours; on the reverse the glaze has pooled near the edge
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1686-1928
Primary reference Number: 72453
Old object number: 1550
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Ballooning Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72453 Accessed: 2024-11-15 15:21:25
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