Pottery and Porcelain
Teapot designed by Johann Jakob Irminger, Meissen, ca. 1720 (NMW A 32076)
Tankard designed by John Pollard Seddon for Bailey & Co., Fulham Pottery, ca. 1877 (NMW A 39628)
The Museum is home to one of the world’s major ceramics collections.
From Egyptian pottery that is more than five thousand years old to objects fresh from the kilns of contemporary makers, pottery and porcelain of all types, sizes and ages can be found here.
We have the largest and most definitive collection of Welsh factory ceramics in the world. This includes objects from Swansea Pottery, the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea China Works, Nantgarw China Works, the Glamorgan Pottery, South Wales Pottery and Ewenny Pottery.
Our magnificent collection of European porcelain was mainly the gift of one man, the Breconshire banker Wilfred de Winton. Between 1917 and 1929 he gave more than three thousand objects, representing all the significant eighteenth-century European factories. German and Dutch porcelain is particularly well represented.
The Museum also has significant collections of English pottery and porcelain, European pottery including unique works by Pablo Picasso, East Asian ceramics, and a growing collection of contemporary ceramics from Wales and beyond.
Interestingly, pottery can be found across our collections at Amgueddfa Cymru. Factory, craft, and archaeological ceramics can be found at nearly all our sites.