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On Display: House - Dunlap Entrance
Plate (Dinner plate)
1783-1790
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Lambeth; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (delftware, faience)
- Tin glaze
Museum Object Number
1956.0038.037
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1956.0038.037
Object Name
Plate (Dinner plate)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Lambeth; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1783-1790
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Red sawtooth bordered label with "1765/ on 81" in pencil
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Balloon ascensions
- History
- Sporting events
- Sports
- Ballooning
Materials
- Earthenware (delftware, faience)
- Tin glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
1.339 (H) x 9.154 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
3.4 (H) x 23.25 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Brulon, Dorothée Guillemé. 1998 Histoire de la Faience Francaise. Paris- Rouen: Sources et rayonnement.
• French examples commemorating the balloon experiments: p. 93Book: Grigsby, Leslie B. 2000 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware.
• Delft dishes commemorating Vincenzo Lunardi (1784) and Jeanne-Pierre-Francoise Balnchard & Dr. John Jeffries (1785) balloon ascensions over London: vol. 2, nos. D95-6, Lambeth London, c. 1785Book: Britton, Frank. 1987 London Delftware.
• Delft dishes and print sources portraying Lunardi and Blanchard ascentions: pp. 164-5, nos. 163-4.