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An important inscribed Swansea pottery plaque, dated 1816 image 1
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An important inscribed Swansea pottery plaque, dated 1816

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An important inscribed Swansea pottery plaque, dated 1816

Very thinly potted and of octagonal form, applied in relief with a group of three cupids and a lion, further cupids applied at each corner, the details picked out in Pratt colours, a blue loop border around the edge and flower garlands painted at the bottom and top, inscribed 'M' and 'H', the reverse incised 'Thos Thomas potter/ January 4 1816/ Swansea' above an indistinct monogram, pierced for suspension, 16.5cm wide

Footnotes

A painter called Thomas Thomas is recorded by W Turner, The Ceramics of Swansea and Nantgarw (1897), p.214. He is said to be a painter on earthenware at the Swansea Pottery and to have been '...kept on after the china time to paint earthenware'. He is thought to have died around 1864. If this is so, he would have been 22 years old in 1816 and may well have been the painter of this plaque.

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