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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.)
Cup, earthenware, standing on a spreading rounded waisted foot-rim, bowl-shaped body with curving sides, the handle broken off; transfer-printed in green with to the exterior sides of the bowl the 'Amoy' pattern, a small chinoiserie-style landscape with figures taking tea in the foreground, behind them are trees and a pagoda-like building, to one side of the scene across an expanse of water are buildings on islands, a scaled down version of the same scene to the interior bottom of the bowl, border to the interior sides of the bowl of garlands of foliage interspersed with flower heads, the foot-rim chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31707
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1824-1870
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.4
diam
(cm): 7
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 12
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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