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Sucrier with cover
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.)
Sucrier, earthenware, standing on a slightly spreading foot, circular bulbous body, a pewter lip-rim fitted to the mouth of the body, twin horizontal scroll handles to either side of the body, the two terminals of each handle moulded together to form a raised loop beneath the handle, stepped and domed pewter cover with several incised rings to it, rising to a disk shaped finial standing on a short pedestal, the cover joined to the metal lip-rim by a hinge at one end; the earthenware body of the sucrier covered all over inside and out with a dark blue glaze.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31605
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1835-1850 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.5
diam
(cm): 14.8
Height
(in): 5
diam
(cm): 5
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
pewter
glaze
Location
In store
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