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Dish, centre
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.)
Centre-dish, earthenware, standing on a spreading oval pedestal foot, the body in the form of a lobed oval with rounded curving sides flaring slightly at the rim, the foot and the interior of the dish moulded with raised overlapping leaves with heavy veining and feathered edges, the leaves do not quite extend to the edge of the foot-rim or the rim of the dish where a stippled textured ground is revelaed; covered all over with a green glaze. A crack to one side of the dish.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35036
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1802-1810 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 26/6/1942
Given by E.M. Bythway
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13.5
Length
(cm): 31.7
Width
(cm): 21.5
Height
(in): 5
Length
(in): 12
Width
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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