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Toby jug
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.)
Pearlware toby jug, of seated eighteenth century gentleman painted in high temperature enamels. Black shoes, white stockings, yellow breeches, white waistcoat with blue buttons and piping, yellow necktie, brown jacket, flesh coloured face and hands, grey hair, black tricorn hat with removable crown, seated holding jug? of foaming ale on left knee, clay pipe propped up by right foot; white strap handle behind outlined in black and decorated with foliage spray.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30398
Creation/Production
Cambrian Pottery
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 24.8
Length
(cm): 17.8
Width
(cm): 12.1
Height
(in): 9
Length
(in): 7
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
Moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Pearlware
Location
On Display
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