Tureen and 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.)
Tureen and cover, white coloured earthenware with pearl glaze, standing on a high pedestal base with flat foot-ring, the tureen is circular, shallow and with a open dish-like profile and flaring lip, flange to the inner lip, the cover with a central dome surmounted with a stylised pine cone finial; the stem, interior and exterior tureen bowl and the exterior cover with a blue soufflé ground, one large circular cartouche in reserve on the inner bowl of the tureen hand painted in polychrome enamels with a tiger in a hilly landscape, three reserve cartouches around the cover, each with a hand-painted dog in wooded landscapes(greyhound; foxhound and Spanish pointer) in polychrome overglaze enamels, the foot is white with a band of gilding, additional bands of gilding to the rim, flange, edge of the cover and around each cartouche, gilded details to finial.
Acquisition
Purchase - ass Art Fund and donors, 3/6/2015
Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund and private donors
Measurements
diam
(cm): 25.8
diam
(in): 10
Height
(cm): 12.6
Height
(in): 5
Height
(cm): 24
Height
(in): 9
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
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jolleyed
forming
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assembled
forming
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ground colour
decoration
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enamelled
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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gilded
decoration
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moulded
forming
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drilled
