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Plate

Nantgarw China Works
PARDOE, Thomas
Plate
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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Plate, soft-paste porcelain with a creamy translucency; standing on a tapered foot-rim, slightly rounded spreading sides with a lobed edge moulded with c-scrolls, and ribbon-tied flowers and foliage; centre painted with a scene showing in outline a female figure seated on a donkey with to one side a standing female figure and to the other a standing male figure bearing a selection of agricultural implements, the background to the scene is painted in green, browns and blues and shows a rural landscape with trees and distant hills, dark blue ground border to the rim.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 30463

Creation/Production

Nantgarw China Works
1813 - 1822
PARDOE, Thomas
Thomas Pardoe was employed as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, from about 1795 to 1809. He then worked freelance in Bristol before returning to Wales in the winter of 1820-21 where he decorated the remaining stock of porcelain at the Nantgarw China Works until his death.
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Painter
Place: Nantgarw
Period: 1818-1823

Measurements

Height (cm): 2.9
diam (cm): 21.8
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 8

Material

Soft-paste porcelain
Enamel
Glaze

Location

on loan out

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  • Applied Art
  • Ceramics
  • Porcelain
  • Welsh Porcelain

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