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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, pearl-glazed earthenware, ovoid body with cyma reversa moulding at shoulder, cylindrical neck with narrow pouring lip. C-shaped handle, slightly scrolling at bottom. Light brown enamelled rim. Body transfer-printed in underglaze blue, on the front a rural scene of two lovers under a tree, with a dog and oxen either side, a bridge to the right, a village in the background. Either side of handle, two prints of bouquets of flowers. On the neck swags and festoons, against a diaper pattern background. Further diaper pattern, with quatrefoils as inside rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30684
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Date: 1795-1804
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 19.4
Length
(cm): 20.6
Width
(cm): 15.7
Height
(in): 7
Length
(in): 8
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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