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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
This vase is painted with deer in the style of Chinese porcelain. The artist was probably Mary Moggridge, a family friend of Lewis Weston Dillwyn, owner of the Swansea China Works. In the early 19th century, painting ceramics was a popular accomplishment for well-to-do amateur women artists.
Spill vase, soft-paste porcelain; straight sided foot rim with a slight ridge above; straight, slightly spreading sides with a flared lip; painted on one side with a deer looking upwards, in an oriental style, green landscape, below pink and orange blossoms, in a rectangular reserve with notched corners, on a patterned ground of iron red diamonds and circles; opposite, a reserve with a bird amongst stylised flowers and foliage; bordered above and below with a band of flowers on a blue ground, and a green and red border inside the lip.
