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, creamy-white pearlware, flaring foot-rim, barrel-shaped body, short cylindrical lip-rim, beak spout with to its exterior incised lines radiating from the base to the lip, moulded foliage to the base of the spout, plain loop handle with two raised ridges running down either side of it; the exterior body of the jug covered with a brown slip against which a creamy-white coloured panel is reserved, inside the panel is painted 'SWANSEA / VOLUNTEERS' in greenish-black above a pair of crossed long-stemmed pipes, the panel enclosed within a dark brown scalloped border, border to the lip-rim of yellow circles on a brown band, two brown bands to the spout with the moulded foliage outlined in brown, a brown stylised acanthus leaf to the handle.
Measurements
Height
(cm): 17
diam
(cm): 12
Width
(cm): 17.1
Height
(in): 6
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Slip-decorated
Decoration
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Pearlware
Slip
Glaze
