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.)
Large jug of creamy earthenware, ovoid body, broad collar neck with everted spout; broad loop handle with thumb spur; transfer printed in dark blue with the 'Cows crossing a stream ' pattern; three cows being herded by a male figure into a stream below a rustic wooden footbridge, in the background, a mill building with water wheel and a female figure leaning over a fence adjacent to a neighbouring building; border to lower section of main body, neck and upper side of handle of a running pattern of vine leaves, tendrils and grapes on a deep blue ground with a waved blue line to outer edges; rising to a triangular peak below the spout and surmounted by the inscription, printed in blue, WM TYACK CAMBORNE OCTr 11th 1825.
Creation/Production
Date: 1825
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 37
Height
(in): 14
diam
(cm): 22.5
diam
(in): 8
Length
(cm): 42.5
Length
(in): 16
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
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slip-cast
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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