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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.)
Figure of Cupid, pearl-glazed earthenware, square plinth, the boy standing on a small scrolled platform, the scrolls picked out in yellow, and in front of low bocage branching to either side; painted naturalistically in enamels, naked flesh coloured apart from a blue and red patterned cloth from his right shoulder to left hip, right leg forward, holding a yellow flower in his uplifted right hand, and with a yellow basket over his left arm containing flowers and leaves; brown hair dressed with flowers; further flowers applied to the bocage behind.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30741
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1815-1830
Acquisition
Purchase, 1912
Measurements
Height
(cm): 10.9
Length
(cm): 7.7
Width
(cm): 4.3
Height
(in): 4
Length
(in): 3
Width
(in): 1
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
modelled
forming
Applied Art
applied
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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