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, pearl-glazed earthenware, globular shaped body with a high collar neck, double C-scroll handle with thumbpiece, coventional triangular spout, the body moulded with adjacent cabbage leaves under scrolls, a further leaf under the spout, the collar moulded with vertical grooves each groove terminating in a moulded vine leaf alternately pointing upwards and downwards and with moulded grapes in between; the jug transfer-printed in black and enamelled, the centre of each leaf painted with the Prince of Wales feathers in green and tied with a pink ribbon, or alternately a purple and yellow eight pointed garter star, the garter star inscribed 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y Penfe' around the centre edge and a pink rose and green thistle, the cabbage leaf moulding picked out in green enamel, the vine leaves in green on a pink ground, the acanthus leaf moulding on the lip also on a pink ground.
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Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 18
Length
(cm): 17.9
Width
(cm): 13.2
Height
(in): 7
Length
(in): 7
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
