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Jug

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.)

Jug, earthenware, standing on an octagonal square-sided foot-rim, pouch-shaped body composed of eight bulbous panels separated by vertical incised lines, tapering inwards at the shoulder then widening to a cylindrical neck which flares slightly to the lip-rim, the lip-rim lobed, raised beak spout, spurred and scrolled handle with raised thumb spur and acanthus leaf moulding along its length; transfer-printed in blue with to the body the 'Oriental Basket' pattern, a tall-stemmed bowl containing flowers in the foreground with exotic birds to either side of it, in the background a pseudo-oriental landscape with Oriental shipping and Oriental buildings, a border of flowers and foliage around the bottom portion of the scene, wide border to the interior and exterior neck of flower heads and foliage on a stippled blue ground, short border to the handle of small semicircles, diamond shapes and looping lines on a stipple blue band.