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Tankard

Haynes, Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery (gilder)
Young, William Weston (gilder)
Pardoe, Thomas (gilder)

Tankard, pearl-glazed earthenware, drum-shaped, with recessed base, and wide strap handle having double grooves and foliate moulded thumbpiece and lower terminal. Painted with the half-length figure of a druid in profile to left with one arm raised on a dark brown ground within an oval gilt frame of intersecting ellipses each containing three dots. He is clad in a brown robe, wears a circlet of oak leaves, and has shoulder-length grey hair and a beard. On either side, large gilded sprays, one of oak leaves, barley, and acorns with a butterfly, and the other comprising a large tulip, leaves and a floret with a large peacock butterfly.

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Art

Item Number

NMW A 32245

Creation/Production

Haynes, Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery
Young, William Weston
Pardoe, Thomas

1803-1806

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Painter
Role: Production
Role: gilder
Period: 1803-1806

Acquisition

Gift, 8/2/1994
Given by W. J. Grant-Davidson

Measurements

Height (cm): 15.5
Length (cm): 16.5
Width (cm): 11.5
Height (in): 6 1/8
Length (in): 6 1/2
Width (in): 4 1/2

Material

Pearlware

Categories

Welsh earthenware Earthenware Ceramics Applied Art
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