Sauce-tureen
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.)
Pearlware sauce tureen, boat shaped with flared trumpet foot; domed cover with ring handle (missing), and spoon aperture; oval stand with foot ring; painted with named botanical specimens in polychrome enamels: on stand the 'Bending Stalked Marigold', with a yellow daisy head, brown centre and narrow foliage; the tureen with on one side the 'Mediterranean Stock' a four petalled purple flower, with green spear shaped leaves, and opposite 'Love in a Mist' a blue flower with very fine green foliage; the cover with, on one side, the 'Long Flowered Oenothera' a yellow four petalled flower with yellow stamens, and orange bud, and on the opposite side the 'Pellitory of Spain' a white flowerhead, with a yellow centre, purple undersides, and green feathery leaves, gilded line above foot, gilded rims.
Creation/Production
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Date: 1800 ca –
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Length
(cm): 22
Width
(cm): 13.8
Height
(cm): 2.7
Length
(cm): 16.5
Width
(cm): 14
Height
(cm): 16.5
Height
(cm): 17
Length
(in): 8
Width
(in): 5
Height
(in): 1
Length
(in): 6
Width
(in): 5
Height
(in): 6
Height
(in): 6
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
