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Dish with cover
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.)
Supper dish, creamware, angular crescent shape with flat base, curving sides and flat slightly grooved rim, domed cover in the form of an angular crescent, to the top of the cover a vertical plain loop handle; decorated with around the interior sides a border of a chocolate ring and dot pattern on a yellow band, a delicate loop and foliate motif patterned border below, the same border pattern to the rim of the cover, two brown bands to the rim of the dish, to the top of the cover around the handle a pattern of overlapping rounded leaves in yellow and chocolate, a stylized flower head to the top of the cover. The cover cracked.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35010
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1800-1811 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.8
Length
(cm): 30.2
Width
(cm): 17.5
Height
(cm): 3
Length
(in): 11
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
creamware
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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