Pot, coffee
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.)
Coffee pot, earthenware, standing on a spreading foot, the foot-rim moulded with anthemions, bell-shaped body rising to a flaring collar the edge of which moulded with anthemions, shelving inwards to a rounded slightly inverted lip-rim, plain curving spout with a moulded anthemion at the top, high loop handle with foliate moulding raised thumb spur and lower inner spur, foliate moulding to the lower terminal, the cover missing; transfer-printed in puce with the 'Mignionette' pattern of scrolling sprigs with geometric borders of triangles and semi circles to the main body and to the lip-rim, geometric border of triangles and semi-circles on a stippled puce ground to the foot-rim, scrolling sprigs to the base of the spout, running border to the handle of diamond and circle shapes on a stippled puce ground.
Creation/Production
Date: 1811-1850
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 22.3
diam
(cm): 16.5
Width
(cm): 26.3
Height
(in): 8
diam
(in): 6
Width
(in): 10
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
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slip-cast
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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Material
earthenware
glaze
