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Only a small number of Swansea porcelains bear the Bevington mark, confirming that porcelain was made as well as decorated by the Bevingtons, purchasers of the Swansea factory from Lewis Weston Dillwyn in 1817. These include the Bevington-Gibbins and Lysaght services, a soup tureen from the former bearing an impressed Bevington mark and both services being characterized by simplified handle forms and a creamy paste. Two similar rams are illustrated by WD John, Swansea Porcelain (1958), fig.57A, marked in the same manner to the present lot. Another, now in the National Museum of Wales, is illustrated by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), pl.LIII, C & D and is marked only BEVINGTON & CO. Nance discusses the Swansea rams at p.130 and refers to an example in Victoria and Albert Museum, formerly in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. This has provenance to the Dillwyn family through Lewis Weston Dillwyn's son, Lewis Llewelyn who married Bessie, daughter of Sir Henry de la Beche, first director of the Jermyn Street museum.