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Bough-pot

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.)

Bough-pot, earthenware, half-moon form, standing on three knob feet, one curving side and one flat side, the curving side decorated with moulded designs in relief consisting of three groups of classical figures in relief, one showing a female figure standing in a large shell with a cupid holding onto a sea creature, one showing a seated female figure holding a branch and a cupid with a lion, one showing a running female figure and a cupid riding on an eagle, each group of figures enclosed by an arched panel and separated from each other by a foliate motif, a border of raised circles along the rim; covered all over with a green glaze.