DESVRES: Round earthenware plate, with polychrome decoration of a hydrogen balloon, illustrating two characters in a basket waving flags. Twigs on the wing. End of the 18th century. (Chips). Diameter : 22.5 cm A comparable plate is illustrated in Faïences au ballon contemporaines de premiers vols aéronautiques, Auxerre - du 11 avril au 15 juin 1987, by Nelly FOUCHET (Fig. III (80)), page 36 (Collection L.H.).