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Spill vase
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.)
Brindley, James (see E Morton Nance 'The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nanatgarw' (London) 1942 p539-40)
Spill-vase, earthenware, standing on a slightly waisted foot-rim, cylindrical sides and flaring mouth with a rised band around the lower body; transfer-printed in black with around the exterior sides a landscape scene showing two figures standing on a track, a house and trees, and a sailing boat on the sea in the distance, a wide pink lustre band around the lower body, a gilt band around the lip-rim. The foot-rim chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35080
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Brindley, James
Date: 1811-1817 –
Acquisition
Gift
Given by Miss Marjorie Cory
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.8
diam
(cm): 8.3
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
lustre, pink
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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