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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, earthenware, standing on rounded spreading waisted foot-rim, a number of raised ridges and incised rings around the lower body, cylindrical slightly flaring sides, plain loop handle with foliate moulding to the upper and lower terminals; transfer-printed in blue with to the exterior sides the 'Cuba' pattern, a male and female figure standing looking over water to a ornate chalet style building, surrounded by an expanse of water running into a small waterfall, the male, gesturing toward the building, tree in foreground to left and ornamental urn, in the distance further buildings on an island; the interior and exterior lip-rim printed with a scrolled border of floral motifs, interspersed with Greek key motifs with trailing asymmetric lines; the handle printed with ornate scrolls, foliage and Greek key motifs with trailing asymmetric lines.