Tobacco-jar and lid
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.)
Tobacco jar, earthenware, cylindrical body, rounded banded foot-rim, body indented at shoulder, vertical lip-rim; cover cylindrical with flat top and raised upper and lower rims; transfer-printed in black, one side of body shows the 'Whampoa' pattern, chinoiserie-style scene consisting of pagoda-style building in foreground surrounded by shrub-type foliage, with pagodas on rocky islands receding into the distance, the other side shows the 'Cuba' pattern, two figures, male and female stand on grassy outcrop in foreground, across expanse of water is ornate, gabled building, to one side of scene is a tree and urn, with buildings receding into the distance, the outside of the lid shows the 'Rhine' pattern, expanse of water is surrounded by buildings and tree-type foliage, two small figures are in the foreground, interior of lid shows head and shoulders portrait of male figure entitled underneath 'REVd JOHN FLETCHER', border with lower polkadot band surmounted by anthemions contained within shield-style shapes to foot-rim of jar, border of scrolling strawberries and floral motifs interspersed with geometrical key patterns to upper rim of jar, the same pattern to rim of lid, egg and dart border to upper side of lid.
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Creation/Production
Date: 1840-1860
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.6
diam
(cm): 12.7
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
incised
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
