Object Number 2016.0034.016

Object Name

Dish

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of the estate of Nancy du Pont Cooch

Place of Origin

London (Lambeth), England, United Kingdom, Europe

Origin Notes

Thomas Morgan and Abigail Griffith (makers), Lambeth High Street, Lambeth, London.

Date

1780-1790

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Label; Underside; "2016.34.16" (ink)
2. Label; Underside; "BALLOON ASCENT IN / ENGLAND - SEP 15th 1784 / BY THE ITALIAN AERONAUT / VINCENT LUNARDI" (ink, handwritten)

Materials

Earthenware (delftware, faience); Tin glaze

Dimensions (inches)

1.875 (H) , 13.75 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

4.762 (H) , 34.925 (Diam)

Measurement Notes

Measurements conducted by Cheryl Paine during collection review at donor's home in 2003.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Archer, Michael. 1997 Delftware: The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• Two differently colored versions of this dish: col. pls. 49-50 & p. 124, nos. B.15-16, the former most like Bmt24 in details. Both Archer examples listed as London, Lambeth High Street, by Thomas Morgan and Abigail Griffith, 1785 or a little later.
[Book] Austin, John C. 1994 British Delft at Williamsburg.
• Variation on same scene on dish with much the same border, also shows print; no. 364, attrib. London, c. 1785
[Book] Grigsby, Leslie B. 2000 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware.
• For discussion of theme: vol. 2, D95-96
[Book] Lange, Amanda E. Delftware at Historic Deerfield, 1600-1800.
• Similarly decorated dish and different balloon ascension plate: pp. 86-88, nos. 45-46. See for discussion of subject. No. 46 commemorated Blanchard ascension
[Book] Britton, Frank. 1982 English Delftware in the Bristol Collection.
• Two balloon ascension plates and a dish: nos. 10.50-.52, with the latter two much more like the Bmt24 dish