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Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green and manganese. Depicting a balloon in the sky above a landscape with fence, trees and a house within a border of leaf sprays, classical festoons and a feathered edge in blue. Near high center, the rope-ribbed hydrogen balloon raises its suspended passenger basket; and two deployed steering
paddles take brown manganese outlines. The sky and earth are streaked with a wash to make hazy effects. The depicted activity took a local importance because this initial balloon ascent within Great Britain was observed at the Honourable Artillery Company grounds in Moorfields on 15 September 1784.
This plate was most likely valued not for its use-value, but its optical value as an object of signification, communicating the owner’s interest in the contemporary buzz surrounding ballooning and scientific progress.
It is also likely that the owner of this platewinessed the ascension and desired a material souvenir of the ephemeral experience. Manufacturers Thomas Morgan, Abigail Griffith at Lambeth High Street Pottery. Made 1785.
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