""balloon" Plate In Lunéville Earthenware, Circa 1785."
Plate with contoured edge in Lunéville earthenware with polychrome decoration in small fire called "au ballon*", three insects on the wing. Around 1785. Late 18th century. Diameter: 22.8cm. *December 1, 1783: Charles and Robert take off from the Jardin des Tuileries, it is the first human flight in a hydrogen balloon. Cf. Patriotic earthenware, balloon earthenware contemporary with the first aeronautical flights by Nelly Fouchet, Ed. Varia, 1987, fig III(75) page 34. 
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