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

Dish, meat

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.)

Meat platter, earthenware, round-ended oblong shape with flat base, curving sides and spreading rim, a raised edge to the well, eight shallow notches and lobes to the rim; transfer-printed in blue with to the well and extending up the sides of the well the 'Monopteros' pattern, in the foreground several figures with two laden ponies, behind them an Italianate tower, further classical buidings and a monopteros on a hill, mountains in the background, the scene surrounded by spreading flowers, foliage and fruit, ribbon border to the rim with overlapping arches on a blue ground. The glaze to the rim chipped off in places.