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.)
Jug, pearl-glazed earthenware, goblular form, straight neck, plain spout, small thumbpiece to handle. Bold Imari style decoration; large oval cartouche under spout containing brown enamelled arms of Lord Kensington over a banner inscribed 'GARDE LA FOY'; border of underglaze blue triangles overpainted in gilding and inner band of gilt ovals; Imari flowers and insects to either side in underglaze blue, rust enamel and gilding; further band of Imari decoration around neck and spout repeated inside jug, blue floral oval on back of handle.
This jug was commissioned for William Edwards of Johnston (c.1712-1801). Edwards was created Lord Kensington in the Irish peerage in 1776 and was MP for Haverfordwest for 52 years.
Acquisition
Purchase, 24/6/1941
Measurements
Height
(cm): 24.4
Length
(cm): 26.8
Width
(cm): 21.6
Height
(in): 9
Length
(in): 10
Width
(in): 8
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
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underglaze blue
decoration
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enamelled
decoration
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gilded
decoration
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