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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.)
Basin, earthenware, standing on a high tapering foot-rim, rounded curving sides flaring out to the rim, a pronounced step round the well below the rim, the rim lobed; transfer-printed in grey-green with to the interior of the basin and the exterior sides the 'Lazuli' continuous sheet pattern, consisting of undulating, irregular grey-greenlines and areas of shaded grey-green to resemble marble or the veining on lapis lazuli.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31703
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1836-1850 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.2
diam
(cm): 24.6
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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