• Plate, Soup
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    Ceramic soup plate with a hand-painted scene of a balloon with sails aloft. A cannon is in the rear of the gondola, which is shown being fired. Gilded decorations around the central image. Banner with inscription above the image: "Expérience aérostatique par le Dr. Jonnatham, au village de Dessessebrugue, pays de galles le 22 Décembre 1783."

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Vanessa Nagengast

Date Created

05/14/2015

Source

National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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