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Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery (1811 - 1817 and 1824 - 1850)
Jug, pale creamy earthenware with a crazed pearl-glaze; oviform body, slight moulded base, shallow neck with curved projecting spout, curved angular handle; printed in overglaze black with a bust portrait in profile to left of a man, who wears a dark coat, striped waistcoat and high cravat, titled JOHN JONES. YESTRAD on a drapery swag below, and enclosed in an oval frame of silver lustre; on the other side the verse - May the independence of CARMARTHEN never want a Supporter Nor the wings of Liberty ever loose a feather in a similar frame, a conventional ten-rayed sun below the spout, and lines to the rim, neck, shoulders and base, all in silver lustre.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32243
Creation/Production
Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery
Acquisition
Gift, 8/2/1994
Given by W. J. Grant-Davidson
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.6
l(cm) handle to spout:17.2
l(cm)
Width
(cm): 12
Height
(in): 5
l(in) handle to spout:6 3/4
l(in)
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
printed
decoration
Applied Art
lustre, silver
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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