Jug
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.)
Pouch shaped jug, of blue tinged white earthenware, standing on an octagonal foot rim, the body, bulbous at the base and ribbed to form broad, slightly convex panels, tapering at the neck, forming an undulating indentation, then flaring to form a wide spouted mouth with an asymmetrically lobed lip rim; high looped ogee handle extending above lip rim with vertical thumb spur, foliate moulding and scrolled lower terminals; freely painted on the lower body in bright polychrome colours with bouquets of garden flowers with similar smaller sprigs to the neck; with the inscription FROM MARY ANN MORRIS TO HER KIND TEACHER MRS. HOWELLS 1847, painted in chocolate brown on the lower part of the body below the spout; chocolate brown banding to lip rim, extending to the thumb spur of the handle, chocolate brown foliate design to handle and detailing to lower terminals.
Creation/Production
Date: 1847
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 16.3
Height
(in): 6
diam
(cm): 12.7
diam
(in): 5
Length
(cm): 15.9
Length
(in): 6
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
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slip-cast
forming
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assembled
forming
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glazed
decoration
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enamelled
decoration
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