Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in polychrome enamels with a design commemorating Louis Blériots cross Channel flight from France to England
Earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in dark blue, green, yellow, pale orange, brown, and black enamels. On the reverse there are three spur marks. The plate is circular with an alternately curved and indented edge, sloping border, shallow well and flat centre, standing on a slight footring. The flat area is decorated with a dark blue circle, enclosing a view of a man in a flying machine passing over a small sailing boat approaching the end of a pier where a penant is flying from a pole. On the sloping sides there is a pale orange circle entwined by a continuous wavy stem of leaves and black berries. The surname 'BLÉRIOT' is painted above the scene, and the date '1909' below. On the underside of the base there is a script 'N.'
Notes
History note: Emil Fischer, IV Bécsi utca (street), Budapest, from whom purchased for 10 kronen (8s.6d,) on 16 August 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 25.8 cm
Height: 3.1 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
20th Century, Early
Production date:
dated
AD 1909
Note
Louis Blériot(1872-1936) made the first cross Channel flight from France to England in a monoplane on 5 July 1909.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pale orange, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pale orange, brown, and black enamels
Inscription or legends present
- Text: BLÉRIOT
- Location: On side of well above the scene
- Method of creation: Painted in dark blue
- Type: Inscription
- Text: 1909
- Location: On side of well below the scene
- Method of creation: Painted in dark blue
- Type: Date
- Text: a script N
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted in dark blue
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2382-1928
Primary reference Number: 76741
Old collection number: 3284
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 19 August 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 19 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
