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Young, William Weston (William Weston Young (1776-1847), cousin of the physician, physicist and Egyptologist Thomas Young, pursued a varied career not only as an entrepreneur, surveyor and botanist but also as an artist. Between 1803 and 1806 he was employed by Lewis Weston Dillwyn as a draughtsman for his scientific publications, but he also worked as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery. His painting on ceramics is distinguished by its precise detailed manner and by the intellectual interests it demonstrates, whether cultural (such as bards and druids) or scientific (such as birds, butterflies and animals).)
Plate, soft-paste porcelain; standing on a straight sided foot rim curving into cushion moulded and curved spreading sides; lobed lip and cruciform moulding; painted in the centre with the botanical specimen named above, in green, black, red, purple, and overglaze blue enamels; wide gilt band to lip.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31061
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Young, William Weston
Acquisition
Purchase, 1908
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.4
diam
(cm): 21.4
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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