Cup and saucer
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.)
Cup, earthenware, standing on a straight-sided foot-rim, rounded sides, flaring everted lip-rim, the lip-rim waved, a raised lobed ridge runs around the interior bottom of the well, numerous ribs run from this up to the rim, scroll and spurred handle with raised thumb-spur and foliate moulding along its length; transfer-printed in flow blue with to the exterior sides, handle and interior lip-rim a continuous sheet pattern of stylized scrolling flower heads and foliage with interlacing stems, a bluish tinge to the glaze.
Saucer, earthenware, circular shape, standing on a rounded foot-rim, curving spreading sides, a raised lobed ridge runs around the well, numerous ribs run from this up to the rim; transfer-printed in flow blue with the same continuous sheet pattern as on the cup, a bluish tinge to the glaze.
Creation/Production
Date: 1831-1870
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.8
diam
(cm): 10.3
Width
(cm): 12.3
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 4
Height
(cm): 2.8
diam
(in): 14.7
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
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jiggered
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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Material
earthenware
glaze
