Tureen
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.)
Tureen, integral stand, and cover, pearl-glazed earthenware, oval stand rising to form a trumpet foot, oval bowl with aperture for spoon, bifurcated handles with foliate terminals at either end, stepped ogee-profile cover with a ring handle, painted with named botanical flowers named under stand: the bowl with 'Alpine Toad-Flax', a purple hooded flower with yellow stamens and spear-shaped foliage, opposite side the 'White Leav,d Indigo' with small orange flowers and narrow foliage; cover with 'Crimson Trefoil', a long orange spike with a tripartite leaf, and, opposite side, the 'African Flax', a yellow, five-petalled flower with narrow foliage; rims enamelled dark brown.
Painted by Thomas Pardoe with flowers and grasses after Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
Creation/Production
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Date: 1800 ca –
Acquisition
Purchase, 1885
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.8
Length
(cm): 22.2
Width
(cm): 16.2
Height
(in): 5
Length
(in): 8
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
