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Spill vase
Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery (1811 - 1817 and 1824 - 1850)
Spill-vase, earthenware, standing on a spreading waisted stepped foot, cylindrical body with raised bands to the top and bottom of the body; the decoration reserved against a black enamel ground so that the red earthenware body is revealed, this then transfer-printed in black with to one side of the body the head and shoulders of a female figure, and to the other side a group of winged cupids with torches and arrows, egg and dart border to the foot-rim, border to the upper and lower parts of the main body of a band of eye-like shapes issuing anthemions within semicircular shapes with pendant lines between them, chevron border to the interior lip-rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31839
Creation/Production
Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.3
diam
(cm): 7.2
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 2
Techniques
jolleyed
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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