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Supper 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.)
Supper dish and cover, white earthenware with pearl glaze, quadrant-shaped with one long convex and one short concave side, the dish with recessed rim or flange to accommodate cover, flat base, cover is domed at the centre with applied loop handle; interior of dish and exterior of cover with blue soufflé ground, the cover with a circular, reserve cartouche in front of the handle, hand-painted in polychrome enamels with a leopard in a rocky landscape, the interior base of the dish is also in reserve, painted in polychrome enamels with a stag in a forested landscape, bands of gilding to rim, edge of cartouches, base of handle, the handle gilded with the 'Garter Star' motif.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39589
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1806 ca
Acquisition
Purchase - ass Art Fund and donors, 3/6/2015
Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund and private donors
Measurements
Length
(cm): 34.8
Length
(in): 13
Width
(cm): 17.4
Width
(in): 7
Height
(cm): 11
Height
(in): 4
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
ground colour
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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