Casgliadau Arlein

Amgueddfa Cymru

Chwilio Uwch

Testun rhydd

Rhif yr Eitem

Adnabyddiaeth

Pwnc

Artistiaid/Creadur

Lle

Categori

Cofnodion â delweddau yn unig

Nôl i Ganlyniadau

Tureen with 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.)

Tureen and cover, pearl-glazed earthenware, oval trumpet shaped foot, boxy oval form, two loop handles, domed shouldered cover with a flat rim, arched handle swelling in the middle; foot undecorated, body and cover decorated with an orange souffle ground, the rims reserved with borders of sepia ribbon loops within narrow brown lines and black lines, cover handle encircled with a border of reserved ovals painted with sepia veins and outlined in brown, area under handle painted brown, brown lines to rims, between foot and body and above foot, handles painted with gilt lines and ovals, cover handle decorated with a conventional gilt pattern of a flower and and ovals.