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Vase and cover
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.)
Pardoe, Thomas (1770-1823)
Vase of inverted pear shape with cylindrical neck and flared foot. Royal blue ground with caillouté gilding. Circular reserve on one side, painted in polychrome enamels with a butterfly and garden flowers, including a rose and an iris. Circular domed cover with flat rim and acorn-shaped finial. Band of gilt husks above foot and around neck; gilt banding to foot, around bottom of body, above and below neck, around cover, rim and finial. Acorn nut finial also gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30554
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Pardoe, Thomas
Date: 1800 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 25.3
Height
(cm): 30.2
diam
(cm): 19
Height
(in): 9
Height
(in): 11
diam
(in): 7
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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