Mug
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.)
Mug, earthenware, protruding notched foot-rim, cylindrical body with band of reeding around lower body and narrow band of wicker-work moulding around upper body, scrolling handle with lower section moulded in the form of an acanthus leaf, and a raised thumb-spur and a further spur lower down; crudely painted in green enamel and pink and gilt lustre with a design of stylized flower heads clustered in small groups, linked by wavy lines and issuing leaves against a background of haphazard scrolling lines, the reeding on the lower body highlighted with pink lustre stripes, a pink lustre band to the moulding on the upper body, pink lustre borders to the interior and exterior lip-rim, pink lustre lines to the handle.
Creation/Production
Date:
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.6
diam
(cm): 9.5
Width
(cm): 13.1
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
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assembled
forming
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enamelled
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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lustred
decoration
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engine-turned
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
enamel
glaze
