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Dish

Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Pardoe, Thomas (1770-1823)

Dish of soft-paste porcelain with creamy translucency; standing on a tapering foot rim with ogee-curved spreading sides; lobed rim (6 large and 6 small lobes, alternating), moulded in relief with scrolls, flowers and tied ribbons. The well enamelled with a view of the bridge over the River Taff at Pontypridd, the river in spate. The rim enamelled in chocolate brown with a line round the outer edge and the initials 'J W'.

This dish is painted with a view of William Edwards’s bridge over the River Taff at Pontypridd, with the river in spate. The high arch is about five miles from Nantgarw and the view most likely based on direct observation by Pardoe. It has pierced haunches to reduce its weight and when completed in 1756 was the world’s longest single-span bridge. It quickly became one of the sights of South Wales, attracting artists as distinguished as Richard Wilson and J M W Turner. Like the great majority of porcelain decorated at Nantgarw, the dish was doubtless decorated for a local customer. Although the initials appear to read JW rather than TW, there is evidence that they are those of Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg, 1778-1835), bardic poet and innkeeper of Pontypool who died at Pontypridd.

Dish
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 31421

Creation/Production

Nantgarw China Works
Pardoe, Thomas
Date: 1818-1823 –

Acquisition

Purchase, 1893

Measurements

Height (cm): 4.5
Height (in): 1
Width (cm): 30.1
Width (in): 11
Depth (cm): 21.5
Depth (in): 8

Techniques

press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain
enamel

Location

Currently on loan

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Porslen Cymru | Welsh porcelain Porslen | Porcelain Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Published online (Applied Art)
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