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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.)
Pearl glazed earthenware centre dish, of shaped oval form, the bowl with four-lobed rim painted with brown enamel, oval flared trumpet foot. Decorated on inside of bowl with in underglaze blue with the Swansea Willow Pattern (or Long Bridge pattern) of three arched bridge, pagodas and junks. On outside of bowl four smaller transfer panels of the same design. Foot decorated around rim with borders of trefoils and ?sunbursts in u.g.b.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30592
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1795-1810
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13.8
Depth
(cm): 22.8
Length
(cm): 32.7
Height
(in): 5
Depth
(in): 8
Length
(in): 12
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
In store
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