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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, protruding rounded foot-rim with raised moulding, vertical sides divided into six panels by incised lines, raised moulding to lip-rim, loop handle with five overlapping foliate mouldings; transfer-printed in purple with the 'Ottoman' pattern, to one side a scene of a figure on horseback besides an elaborate fountain with a camel-like animal to the other side of it, to the other side a scene of four deer on a grassy outcrop surrounded by water with a towered building in the background, both scenes enclosed within scrolling cartouches of foliage and flowers, a border of arcades and dots to the exterior lip-rim, to the interior lip-rim a border composed of six separate panels showing scenes containing deer, swan-like birds and buildings, a border of narrow lines and arrows to the handle.