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, inset base with two incised rings to the centre of the base, globular body and cylindrical neck, plain beak spout and plain loop handle; the whole of the jug covered inside and out with a yellow glaze, this then overprinted in black with to one side of the body a design showing the Prince of Wales Feathers with three curving feathers issuing out of a circlet-like crown and below a number of other Welsh emblems including a trumpet-like instrument and an entwining garland of roses and other flowers, to the other side of the body is a landscape scene showing a bridge over a river against a background of hills, a border of stylised flower heads and looping lines to the neck, a black band to the lip-rim and spout, a black acanthus leaf to the spout.
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Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.4
diam
(cm): 13.5
Width
(cm): 17.4
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 5
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Extruded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Earthenware
Glaze
