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Vase, with cover

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.)
PARDOE, Thomas (Thomas Pardoe was employed as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, from about 1795 to 1809. He then worked freelance in Bristol before returning to Wales in the winter of 1820-21 where he decorated the remaining stock of porcelain at the Nantgarw China Works until his death.)

Vase, earthenware, standing on a square base, urn-shaped body with spreading short pedestal foot and cylindrical neck, to either side of the neck twin ring and scroll handles resting on moulded masks at the lower terminals, high domed cover with a nipple shaped finial to the top of the cover; the vase covered with an underglaze blue ground at the foot, the middle of the body, the neck, the handles and the cover, and a yellow ground at the lower body and the shoulder, the shoulder painted in sepia and white with a pattern of foliage, flower heads and arabesques, the base painted black. The foliage of the cover chipped.

Vase, with cover
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35022

Creation/Production

Cambrian Pottery
PARDOE, Thomas

Acquisition

Bequest, 10/12/1953

Measurements

Height (cm): 23.3
diam (cm): 11
Width (cm): 15
Height (cm): 9
diam (in): 4
Width (in): 5

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

earthenware
enamel
glaze

Location

In store

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