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Ballooning Plate
Pottery: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow,and manganese-purple
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale greenish-grey 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 hot-air balloon in the sky over a house, trees, and a fence. The rim has a border of green festoons with manganese pendants between them, blue floral sprays, and a blue feathered edge.
History note: Purchased from the Cambridge dealer Mr Freeman, in May 1889 for 12s. 6d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.2 cm
Height: 3.1 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 at Lambeth, at either the Lambeth High Street or Glasshouse Street potteries. The scene was probably inspired by Vincenzo Lunardi's flight from Moorfields in London in 1784 or several which he made from St George's Fields, Southwark in 1785.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple)
greenish white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Tin-glazed earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed pale greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple high temperature (oxide) colours; the glaze on the reverse is greenish-grey and there are three peg marks on the back of the rim
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1687-1928
Primary reference Number: 72454
Old object number: 1005
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Ballooning Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72454 Accessed: 2024-12-23 03:30:52
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