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Chwilio Uwch

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Lle

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Vase and 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 for dried flowers, black basalt, classical vase form, trumpet shaped foot ringed under bowl, oviform bowl the lower half fluted, the upper plain with sprigged decoration, high cover with reeded rim and convex sides, terminating in a grooved dome with a pine-cone finial, the body of the cover perforated; four sprigged classical groups of draped female figures to body of vase: Britannia in and lion, indicating Fame with a trumpet; three ladies, one with laurel leaves crowning a bust, one pointing to a book held by the other; a lady holding a torch and rising from a classical stool; a lady weeping over an urn on a column