Bowl
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.)
Bowl, earthenware, standing on a spreading foot, moulded in panels with garlands of lozenges; the sides rounded and moulded in panels with larger semi-circles of lozenges, scrolls issuing from the sides of each panel; the rim moulded in alternating large and small lobes; transfer printed in purple with the 'Swiss Villa' pattern; in the centre a pavilion style building with figures walking along a colonnade in front, a turret behind with mountains, exotic trees and an expanse of water, all surrounded by ornate scrolls, foliage and flowers; within a border of ornate scrolls, decorated with a dentilled heart pattern, issuing floral motifs; the exterior sides with the same border with a sprigged border pattern to the foot rim.
Creation/Production
Date: 1825-1835
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.5
Height
(in): 5
diam
(cm): 27.2
diam
(in): 10
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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