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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.)
Jug, pearlware, spreading foot-rim, globular body, cylindrical neck, plain upright spout, bracket-shaped handle; transfer-printed in blue with decoration of factory-like building, a fish, some copper ingots and the fifteen besants of the Duchy of Cornwall, border to the exterior lip-rim and interior lip-rim of festooned leaves, a spray of leaves to the exterior and interior of the spout, a running border of leaves to the handle. The spout appears to have been broken off and restuck, a gilt line covers the join.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30716
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1790-1817 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 16
diam
(cm): 11
Length
(cm): 15.1
Height
(in): 6
diam
(in): 4
Length
(in): 5
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
glaze
Location
In store
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