Cup and saucer
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.)
Cup, earthenware, waisted spreading foot-rim, rounded bottom, the upper body of the cup slightly inset from the lower body, cylindrical sides flaring out to an everted lip-rim, high loop handle with stepped shoulder curving downwards from a sharp top point; transfer-printed in blue with to the exterior sides of the cup a small scene showing an elaborately gabled building oriental buiding with large spreading flower besides it, and a small scene showing a Chinese figure bearing a parasol and a basket standing on a fenced terrace with a large flower growing out of an urn to one side, a flower head to the interior bottom of the cup, deep ornate border to the interior lip-rim of stylized flower heads and foliage on a deep blue ground, a running border of flowers and leaves to the handle.
Saucer, earthenware, circular shape, standing on a narrow rounded foot-rim with curving spreading sides; transfer-printed in blue with to the centre of the well a scene showing a Chinese figure bearing a parasol and basket standing on a fenced terrace with a large flower growing out of an urn to one side and a duck with spread wings in the foreground, border to the rim as on the cup.
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Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7.8
diam
(cm): 8.3
Width
(cm): 10.5
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 4
Height
(cm): 3.2
diam
(cm): 14.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
Jolleyed
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Jiggered
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Earthenware
Glaze
