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Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
PARDOE, Thomas (Thomas Pardoe was employed as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, from about 1795 to 1809. He then worked freelance in Bristol before returning to Wales in the winter of 1820-21 where he decorated the remaining stock of porcelain at the Nantgarw China Works until his death.)
Plate, soft-paste porcelain with a creamy translucency; standing on a tapered foot-rim, slightly rounded spreading sides with a lobed edge moulded with c-scrolls, and ribbon-tied flowers and foliage; centre painted with a scene showing in outline a female figure seated on a donkey with to one side a standing female figure and to the other a standing male figure bearing a selection of agricultural implements, the background to the scene is painted in green, browns and blues and shows a rural landscape with trees and distant hills, dark blue ground border to the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30463
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
PARDOE, Thomas
Date: 1818-1823 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 1895
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 21.8
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
glaze
Location
Currently on loan
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