Glamorgan Pottery

The Glamorgan Pottery was a porcelain china works located in Swansea, Wales, from 1813 until 1838, producing various earthenware products.

Works manager of the adjacent Cambrian Pottery started the works in 1813, having fallen out with Cambrian owner Lewis Weston Dillwyn. The wares produced were largely for domestic use, and regularly marked "B B & I", for Baker, Bevan and Irwin, the initials of the owners.[1]

Offered for sale, it was purchased in 1837 by Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, son of Lewis Weston Dillwyn. He closed the pottery in 1838, selling most of the assets to William Chambers, who then established the South Wales Pottery at Llanelly in 1840. Many of the workers, most originally from Staffordshire, transferred to the new pottery.[2]

Examples of Swansea pottery can be seen today at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and at Swansea Museum

References

  1. ↑ "Glamorgan Pottery". ceramics-aberystwyth.com. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
  2. ↑ A Guide to the Potteries and Decorators Swansea Museum Services
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