Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Hot Air Balloon Plate, Mongolfiere Pattern, Rosenthal Motiv 2

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Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Hot Air Balloon Plates,
Mongolfiere Pattern,
Rosenthal, Motiv 2,
1980s

The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate was made … Read more Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Hot Air Balloon Plates,
Mongolfiere Pattern,
Rosenthal, Motiv 2,
1980s

The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate was made by Rosenthal and depicts a scene of a historical hot air balloon. The pattern is known as the Mongolfiere pattern.

The scene depicts a hot air balloon with a panel with the following text:

"1783/ Nov 21th Pilatre des Rosiers/and Darlandes Leave the Castle of La/Muette for the first air travel in a fireballoon."
"Mongolfiere" in Italian means "hot-air balloon," referencing the invention of the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, who pioneered the first practical hot air balloon in 1783.

Dimensions: Diameter 10 1/2 inches x 1 inch height (26.67cm diameter x 2.54cm high)

Mark: Circular black-ground mark with yellow writing. Rosenthal Classic/Germany above the Fornasetti brush and hand and below Fornasetti (registration mark) and Dekor Mongolfiere withy Motiv ! on one and Motiv 2 on the other.

In the 1980s, Rosenthal revived Piero Fornasetti's reputation by applying a small number of his designs, particularly those featuring the face of Lina Cavalieri, to their products, notably in the "Tema e Variazioni" (theme and variation) series of plates.

See: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 616, #167 for four Fornasetti examples from set.

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Pil%C3%A2tre_de_Rozier

Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (30 March 1754 – 15 June 1785) was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He made the first manned free balloon flight with François Laurent d'Arlandes on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.

In June 1783, he witnessed the first public demonstration of a balloon by the Montgolfier brothers. On 19 September, he assisted with the untethered flight of a sheep, a cockerel, and a duck from the front courtyard of the Palace of Versailles. French King Louis XVI decided that the first manned flight would contain two condemned criminals, but de Rozier enlisted the help of the Duchess de Polignac to support his view that the honour of becoming first balloonists should belong to someone of higher status, and the Marquis d'Arlandes agreed to accompany him. The king was persuaded to permit d'Arlandes and de Rozier to become the first pilots.

After several tethered tests to gain some experience of controlling the balloon, de Rozier and d'Arlandes made their first untethered flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon on 21 November 1783, taking off at around 2 pm from the garden of the Château de la Muette in the Bois de Boulogne, in the presence of the king. Their 25-minute flight travelled slowly about 5½ miles (some 9 km) to the southeast, attaining an altitude of 3,000 feet, before returning to the ground at the Butte-aux-Cailles, then on the outskirts of Paris.

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