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Young, William Weston (William Weston Young (1776-1847), cousin of the physician, physicist and Egyptologist Thomas Young, pursued a varied career not only as an entrepreneur, surveyor and botanist but also as an artist. Between 1803 and 1806 he was employed by Lewis Weston Dillwyn as a draughtsman for his scientific publications, but he also worked as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery. His painting on ceramics is distinguished by its precise detailed manner and by the intellectual interests it demonstrates, whether cultural (such as bards and druids) or scientific (such as birds, butterflies and animals).)
Plate, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; standing on a foot rim, cruciform moulding, the lip comprising four large and four small lobes; painted in the centre with a botanical design of the white flowered chickweed wintergreen (Trientalis europaea); broad gilt band to the lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31060
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Young, William Weston
Sowerby, J (English Botany, vol1, 1790)
Date: 1816-1817 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 1908
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.5
diam
(cm): 21.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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