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Jug

Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery (Engraver)
Brindley, James (Engraver)
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Earthenware jug, wheel-thrown, footring, ovoid body, cylindrical neck, slightly upturned spout, curved and angled moulded handle. Shoulder inscribed 'Bonaparte Dethron'd'in brown enamel. Body printed with a complex on-glaze cartoon showing Napoleon in chains being dragged into a fiery pit by a devil and surrounded by various characters all with speech bubbles. Landscape setting, print overpainted in enamels. Narrow brown enamel to shoulder, around foot, brown enamel strokes to back of handle. Most of neck missing, remains painted blue.


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Details


Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 30682

Creation/Production

Dillwyn & Co., Cambrian Pottery
1811 - 1817 and 1824 - 1850
Brindley, James
see E Morton Nance 'The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nanatgarw' (London) 1942 p539-40
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Engraver
Place: Swansea
Period: 1814

Acquisition

Bequest, 10/12/1953

Measurements

Height (cm): 16.5
Length (cm): 17.6
Width (cm): 15.5
Height (in): 6
Length (in): 6
Width (in): 6

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Earthenware

Location

In store
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Tags


  • Applied Art
  • Ceramics
  • Earthenware
  • Welsh Earthenware

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