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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 (1770-1823)
Straight sided, cylindrical pearlware mug, strap handle with foliate thumbpiece over secondary foliate scroll. Central medallion painted in black enamels with bust portrait of Nelson in naval uniform, set within a gilded border of tongues within bands; further gilded motif to either side of acorns, flowers and foliage with butterfly to right, and wheat ear and insect to left, gilt band around base and rim, gilding delineating handle and further decorated with gilt medallion and pendant husks.
The portrait is after a painting by Francis Lemuel Abbott, engraved in mezzotint in 1798. A number of mugs and jugs painted with Nelson were included at the Cambrian Warehouse sale in London, 1808.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30395
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Pardoe, Thomas
Date: 1802 ca –
Acquisition
Gift, 1956
Given by The Friends of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Measurements
Height
(cm): 15.9
Width
(cm): 11.2
Length
(cm): 17.2
Height
(in): 6
Width
(in): 4
Length
(in): 6
Techniques
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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