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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.)
Jug, buff-coloured earthenware, heavily stained, crazed glaze tinged with blue, wheel-thrown; oviod body, straight neck with projecting lip spout, plain loop handle; painted in underglaze blue with a large bouquet of garden flowers on one side, and with a large double leaf spray with formal blooms and spiky projecting sprays on the other, neck with a wreath of leaves on a verically hatched ground and a sprig and leaf trail below, the underside of the spout with cailloute marbling, plain band round base and formal leaf ornament on the handle.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32263
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1805-1815
Acquisition
Gift, 8/2/1994
Given by W. J. Grant-Davidson
Measurements
Height
(cm): 18.8
l(cm) handle to spout:20.3
l(cm)
Width
(cm): 16.5
Height
(in): 7
l(in) handle to spout:8
l(in)
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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