Jug
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.)
Jug, pearlware, slightly spreading foot-rim, bulbous body tapering gently inwards at the shoulder to a cylindrical neck, plan beak spout, plain loop handle; painted in high temperature colours with to either side of the exterior body a stylized spray of flowers and foliage in orange, blue and green, a sprig of green leaves to the front of the body below the spout, an underglaze blue band around the foot-rim, an underglaze blue border to the exterior neck of hatched triangular motifs between two blue bands, a short underglaze blue border to the spout of oval and dot motifs between blue bands, an underglaze blue stylized anthemion to the handle. A large chip missing from one side of the spout, the lip-rim chipped, the body of the jug cracked to one side of the spout.
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Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 12.7
diam
(cm): 9
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
extruded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
enamel
glaze
