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Plate, miniature
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.)
Plate, earthenware, circular shape with inset base, curving sides and spreading rim, lobed rim, the rim moulded with alternating panels of embossed eagle-like birds and flowers, raised edges separate the panels; loosely painted in red, pink, blue and yellowy-green with to the centre of the well a very-fadeed rose-like flower issuing further flowers and foliage, the moulded flowers to the rim overpainted in pink, red and yellowy-green, brown bands to the edge of the well and the outer rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34552
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1824-1850
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.1
diam
(cm): 14.3
Height
(in): 13
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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