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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.)
PARDOE, Thomas (Thomas Pardoe was employed as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, from about 1795 to 1809. He then worked freelance in Bristol before returning to Wales in the winter of 1820-21 where he decorated the remaining stock of porcelain at the Nantgarw China Works until his death.)
Figure of Cleopatra, earthenware, the figure reclining on a long moulded base with the head resting on one arm, the other arm, most of which is missing, is curved over the head, the figure partially clad in flowing draperies, from which the feet, clad in sandals, emerge; the figure realistically painted in polychrome enamels with brown hair, yellow, pink, blue, orange and green draperies and brown sandals with black soles, the base painted grey-brown.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35032
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
PARDOE, Thomas
Date: 1797-1810 ca –
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 15.8
Length
(cm): 28
Width
(cm): 10.8
Height
(in): 6
Length
(in): 11
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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