Mug
Cambrian Pottery (Established in Swansea in 1764, the Cambrian Pottery reached its creative peak under the proprietorship of Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855), who ran the Pottery (with a break between 1817 and 1824) from 1802 to 1836. Lewis Weston Dillwyn was a natural scientist, antiquarian, Member of Parliament, magistrate and landowner whose intellectual interests drove the Cambrian Pottery to become one of the most ambitious and artistically accomplished British potteries of the early 19th century. While the porcelain manufactured in Swansea between 1814 and 1825 justifies its reputation as among the finest of British porcelains, the pottery produced under Dillwyn’s ownership between 1802 and about 1809 was at its best an equally impressive achievement, most particularly that made for sale in the Pottery’s Cambrian Warehouse in London 1806-1808, the context for which this supper service was most likely created.)
Mug, earthenware, cylindrical body, slightly spreading at the foot, a band of moulded anthemions to the top and bottom of the body, the area in between divided into six panels by vertical incised lines, loop handle with foliate moulding and raised thumb-spur; transfer-printed in black with to the main body two oriental scenes showing oriental buidlings, trees and foliage with islands across an expanse of water, a heart and loop dentilled border to the exterior lip-rim, the interior of the mug transfer-printed with to one side a spray of flowers, scrolls and foliage, and to the other side a group of shells surrounded by small flowers and foliage, a running border to the handle of flowers and leaves issuing from a long stem.
Creation/Production
Date:
Acquisition
Purchase, 11/1/1922
Measurements
Height
(cm): 12.4
diam
(cm): 9
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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Material
earthenware
glaze
