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Fruit stand
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.)
Fruit stand, earthenware, pedestal with spreading foot and two raised bands around it, dish shaped upper section with spreading rim, rope-style moulded edge around the well, perforations to the rim with floral moulded bosses at the intersections of the perforations, lobed rim; the centre well loosely painted in puce, red, green, yellow and blue with a spray of different types of flowers, the whole apart from the centre well covered in a speckled green glaze, gilding to the floral bosses, gilt bands to the foot-rim, the bands around the pedestal, the rope-style moulding and the edge of the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34466
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date:
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 10.1
diam
(cm): 21.5
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
glaze
Location
In store
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