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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 in polychrome enamels with an arrangement of flowers, dark blue ground border to the rim with alternate gilt stylised flower heads and sprigs; plain gilt band to lip and around cavetto.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30473
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
PARDOE, Thomas
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.8
diam
(cm): 21.8
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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