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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.)
Pardoe, Thomas (1770-1823)
Oval dish, pearl-glazed earthenware, cruciform moulded with four lobes, footring, the centre painted in sepia with a river scene with trees to either side, a small boat and a tower house on a promontory beyond, all in an oval reserve with a gilt border, and named on reverse as 'BEAU PARC / in the County of Westmeath / the seat of CHARLES LAMBERT, ESQr'; continuous border pattern to rim within two gilt lines of beads within black diamonds on a pink ground, rim edge enamelled brown.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30472
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Pardoe, Thomas
Date: 1800 ca –
Acquisition
Exchange, 1907
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.7
Length
(cm): 25
Width
(cm): 18.8
Height
(in): 1
Length
(in): 9
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
In store
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