Cup and saucer
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.)
Cup, earthenware, standing on a rounded spreading waisted foot-rim, conical bottom, cylindrical sides flaring out to the lip-rim, narrow ogee handle; transfer-printed in black with to the exterior sides of the cup the vignettes known as 'Chinese Views, showing an ornate gabled oriental building in the foreground with a fence to one side of it and oriental trees behind it, further oriental buidings on islands across an expanse of water, a black band halfway up the interior of the cup and a further black band to the interior lip-rim, black markings to the handle.
Saucer, earthenware, standing on a narrow rounded foot-rim, curving sides; transfer-printed in black with to the centre of the well one of the vignettes known as 'Chinese Views' showing an ornate gabled buiding with trees behind it standing on an island in an expanse of water, to one side a small bridge joins two islands, further islands receed into the distance, a black band halfway up the interior sides of the saucer and a further black band to the rim.
Creation/Production
Date: 1825-1830
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7
diam
(cm): 9.2
Width
(cm): 11
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 4
Height
(cm): 3.2
diam
(cm): 14.6
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
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jiggered
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
