IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76741 accession number: C.2382-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 19 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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.' object type: earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in polychrome enamels with a design commemorating Louis Blériots cross Channel flight from France to England title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. 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/76741 PEOPLE ------------------- Blériot, Louis (1872-1936) SUBJECTS ------------------- aviation sailing flying aeroplane sailing boat flying aeroplane sailing boat TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pale orange, brown, and black enamels moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1909 - 1909 creation date earliest: 1909 creation date latest: 1909 culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2382_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2382_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2382_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2382_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels