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Tureen, cream, cover and stand
Young, William Weston (William Weston Young (1776-1847), cousin of the physician, physicist and Egyptologist Thomas Young, pursued a varied career not only as an entrepreneur, surveyor and botanist but also as an artist. Between 1803 and 1806 he was employed by Lewis Weston Dillwyn as a draughtsman for his scientific publications, but he also worked as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery. His painting on ceramics is distinguished by its precise detailed manner and by the intellectual interests it demonstrates, whether cultural (such as bards and druids) or scientific (such as birds, butterflies and animals).)
Cream tureen, cover, and stand, soft-paste porcelain; tureen on a narrow pedestal base, curved spreading sides, and twig handles with foliate terminals; slightly domed cover with pineapple finial surrounded by acanthus leaf moulding; stand on a straight sided foot rim, curving into cushion moulded and curved spreading sides; tureen painted on the body with a botanical specimen in green, purple and yellow enamels, the cover painted with a garland ( fuschia?) in red and green enamels; wide gilt bands to foot rim and lip, gilt handles and finial.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31105
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Young, William Weston
Acquisition
Purchase, 15/5/1992
Purchased with support from The Friends of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, The National Heritage Memorial Fund and The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13.5
diam
(cm): 15.4
l(cm) handle to handle:17.4
l(cm)
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 6
l(in) handle to handle:6 7/8
l(in)
Height
(cm): 2.6
diam
(cm): 18.9
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 7
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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