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Dish

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.)

Dish, pearl-glazed earthenware, oval four-lobed, cruciform moulding with footring. Painted in monochrome enamels with an oval containing a female figure, Hope, dressed in draperies, standing at the front of a cave and holding an anchor with her left hand while looking at a boat at sea. Rim enamelled black.

The dish is painted with the figure of Hope, who holds an anchor and gazes towards a boat at sea.

Dish
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 30552

Creation/Production

Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1800 ca

Acquisition

Bequest, 10/12/1953

Measurements

Height (cm): 3.4
Length (cm): 24.7
Width (cm): 18.9
Length (in): 1
Length (in): 9
Width (in): 7

Techniques

mould-blown
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art

Material

pearlware

Location

In store

Categories

Priddwaith Cymru | Welsh earthenware Priddwaith | Earthenware Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Published online (Applied Art)
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