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Dish and cover
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.)
Dish and cover from a supper service, pearl-glazed earthenware, segment form dish with long outer side and shorter inner side, flanged lip for cover, the inside walls decorated with a caillouté ground in underglaze blue and gilding, the well with a salmon pink ground with a segment shaped reserve outlined in gilt; decorative scheme repeated on cover with the reserve around the handle, the handle waisted at either end and painted with a gilt floral oval.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30792
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1800-1805
Acquisition
Gift, 12/7/1938
Given by F.E. Andrews
Measurements
Height
(cm): 10.1
Length
(cm): 34.5
Width
(cm): 18.1
Height
(in): 4
Length
(in): 13
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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