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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.)
Jug, earthenware, standing on a spreading foot-rim, an incised ring to the centre of the base, bulbous body, cylindrical neck, raised beak spout, loop handle with raised thumb-spur; transfer-printed in blue with to the body the 'Cows crossing a stream' pattern, in the foreground a male figure drives three cattle across a stream by the side of a bridge, in the background a rural landscape of a mill, other buildings and trees, wide border to the exterior and interior neck and spout of vine leaves and clusters of fruit issuing scrolling tendrils against a blue ground, running border to the handle of flowers and foliage.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31669
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1811-1850
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 19.7
diam
(cm): 18.5
Width
(cm): 25
Height
(in): 7
diam
(in): 7
Width
(in): 9
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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