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Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery
(Engraver)
Brindley, James
(Engraver)
Earthenware jug, wheel-thrown, footring, ovoid body, cylindrical neck, slightly upturned spout, curved and angled moulded handle. Shoulder inscribed 'Bonaparte Dethron'd'in brown enamel. Body printed with a complex on-glaze cartoon showing Napoleon in chains being dragged into a fiery pit by a devil and surrounded by various characters all with speech bubbles. Landscape setting, print overpainted in enamels. Narrow brown enamel to shoulder, around foot, brown enamel strokes to back of handle. Most of neck missing, remains painted blue.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30682
Creation/Production
1811 - 1817 and 1824 - 1850
see E Morton Nance 'The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nanatgarw' (London) 1942 p539-40
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Engraver
Place: Swansea
Period: 1814
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 16.5
Length
(cm): 17.6
Width
(cm): 15.5
Height
(in): 6
Length
(in): 6
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Earthenware
Location
In store
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