Mug
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.)
Mug, pearlware, inset base within a flattened-off foot-rim, cylindrical sides, square-shouldered loop hand;e, the exterior sides embossed with a raised decoration consisting of to the front of the mug a large rectangular panel with to either side heart and lozenge shaped panels, insects and floral sprigs, the raised areas surrounded by a stippled textured ground; painted in pink lustre with to the rectangular panel a stylized scene showing a cottage surrounded by trees, pink lustre bands above and below the rectangular panel, the embossed heart and lozenge shaped panels, the insects and the floral sprigs overpainted in pink lustre, pink lustre bands around the interior and exterior lip-rim, a pink lustre dash to the handle. The body of the mug cracked around the handle.
Rhif yr Eitem
NMW A 35038
Creu/Cynhyrchu
Dyddiad: 1802-1810 ca
Derbyniad
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Mesuriadau
Uchder
(cm): 9.4
diam
(cm): 7.4
Lled
(cm): 11.1
Uchder
(in): 3
diam
(in): 2
Lled
(in): 4
Techneg
wheel-thrown
forming
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press-moulded
forming
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assembled
forming
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lustre, pink
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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