School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Nantgarw Pottery

   Active: 1813-1814; 1833-1920

Established as 'Nantgarw China Works' in 1813 by artist and ceramicist William Billingsley and his son-in-law Samuel Walker and operated out of the rented ‘Nantgarw House’ on the eastern bank of the Glamorganshire Canal, eight miles north of Cardiff in the Taff Valley, Glamorganshire, Wales.

Billingsley had hoped to produce high quality, soft paste porcelain but met with technical difficulties, losing up to ninety percent in firings. The business closed in 1814 and Billingsley and Walker moved to Swansea where they worked for Lewis Weston Dillwyn at the Cambrian Pottery. A similar formula was used at the Cambrian Pottery, making it very difficult to accurately allocate works between the two with confidence.

The Nantgarw Pottery reopened in 1833, making a variety of glazed earthenware utility products, before finally closing in 1920.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Circular plate] C706 Ceramics

[Circular plate] C707 Ceramics

[Circular plate] C708 Ceramics

[Small urn] C712 Ceramics

The Least Butcher Bird C705 Ceramics




 
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