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Haynes, Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery (1802 - 1810)
Young, William Weston (William Weston Young (1776-1847), cousin of the physician, physicist and Egyptologist Thomas Young, pursued a varied career not only as an entrepreneur, surveyor and botanist but also as an artist. Between 1803 and 1806 he was employed by Lewis Weston Dillwyn as a draughtsman for his scientific publications, but he also worked as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery. His painting on ceramics is distinguished by its precise detailed manner and by the intellectual interests it demonstrates, whether cultural (such as bards and druids) or scientific (such as birds, butterflies and animals).)
Dish, pearl-glazed earthenware, footring, plain, circular, the front painted with three evenly spaced butterflies - the common tortoishell (orange with black and yellow bars and eyes), white admiral (black with white bars) and the comma (yellow with deep brown markings), identified on back as P Album, P Camilla, and P Urticae.
This dish is painted with butterflies by William Weston Young.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30738
Creation/Production
Haynes, Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery
Young, William Weston
Acquisition
Purchase
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.1
diam
(cm): 19.4
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 7
Techniques
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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