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.)
Vase, earthenware, standing on a waisted spreading foot, a raised band around the foot, bulbous urn-shaped body, short cylindrical neck, raised bands to the lower body, shoulder and neck, domed cover, flaring at the rim, deeply curving sides, finial in the shape of a flower head tilting over to one side, the finial resting upon a raised moulded vine leaf spreading over the top of the cover; transfer-printed in blue with to the main body three groups of shells, scrolls, flowers and foliage, a heart and loop dentil border to the foot-rim and the interior and exterior lip-rim, two groups of flowers, foliage and scrolls and a group of shells, flowers and foliage to the cover, heart and loop dentil border to the rim of the cover, a blue edge to the moulded vine leaf, blue markings to the flower head finial.
Creation/Production
Date: 1824-1850
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 26
diam
(cm): 16
Height
(in): 10
diam
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
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assembled
forming
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transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
