IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76719
accession number:	C.2331-1928

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. The plate is circular with an alternately curved and indented edge. On the reverse it has three peg marks. In the middle of the front there is a yellow hot air balloon with a blue and yellow car suspended below it by manganese-purple ropes. Two men are seated inside it holding blue flags which stream out to right and left. Around the upper edge there is a greyish-purple line with six yellow and green plant motifs where the edge is indented. In each space between them there are three  blue balls with red strokes abovethem forming a shallow fan-shape.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware plate decorated with two men in a hot air balloon surrounded by a stylized plant motif border
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before 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/76719


SUBJECTS
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ballooning
hot air balloon
aeronaut
ballooning
hot air balloon
aeronaut



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

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

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 22.5

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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