Teapot and cover
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.)
Teapot, earthenware, square foot-rim, oblong body, slightly convex panels on body, a shelving collar with moulded anthemions to rim; a pyramidal cover moulded with anthemions, the oblong finial gadrooned; a curved spout, the upper spout moulded with an anthemion; a high loop, straight-topped handle, rising above the main body, with raised thumb spur; transfer printed in blue to either side with the 'Troubadour' pattern, a male figure seated on rocks playing a mandolin in front of an alpine-style landscape, within a cartouche of ornate scrolls, flowers and foliage, a lace style border to the upper rim of filigree panels interspersed with floral motifs, similar border to cover, a floral spray on finial, floral sprays to the upper and lower spout, a running geometric lace-style pattern of dots and flower heads to the handle.
Creation/Production
Date: 1830-1850
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 16.5
Length
(cm): 26.2
Width
(cm): 14
Height
(in): 6
Length
(in): 6
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
