Sucrier with 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.)
Sucrier, earthenware, oval form, standing on a rounded foot-rim, bulbous sides sloping inwards at the shoulder, raised boat-shaped lip-rim, twin scroll handles to either end of the body, oval domed cover, the rim of the cover raised at either end, to the top of the cover the finial is broken off and missing; transfer-printed in sepia with to the exterior sides of the body two large groups of sea shells surrounded by seaweed alternating with two single sea shells surrounded by seaweed, border to the shoulder of the sucrier and the rim of the cover of sea shells surrounded by seaweed, two sprays of seaweed to the sides of the cover, the handles painted in silver lustre, silver lustre edges to the lip-rim of the sucrier and the rim of the cover.
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Creation/Production
Date: 1811-1817
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 12.3
Length
(cm): 18.3
Width
(cm): 11.9
Height
(in): 4
Length
(in): 7
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
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lustre, silver
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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Material
earthenware
glaze
