Jug
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, earthenware, standing on a squared-off octagonal foot-rim, pouch-shaped body with eight panels separated by vertical incised lines, tapering inwards at the shoulder then flaring out to a cylindrical neck, waved lip-rim, raised beak spout, scrolled and spurred handle with raised thumb-spur and further spurs lower down, foliate moulding to the handle; painted in pink, red, blue, yellow and green with to the main body two spreading sprays of flowers and foliage, the inscription 'MARY THOMAS STEVENS / 1838' painted on the main body below the spout with an elaborate scrolling design below it, several small sprigs of flowers to the neck, brown band to the lip-rim and spout, brown anthemion and other markings to the handle.
Creation/Production
Date: 1838 ca –
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 18.7
diam
(cm): 15.5
Width
(cm): 18.8
Height
(in): 7
diam
(in): 6
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
