Punch Bowl, Woman on a Camel

Item Number: D75
Shape Type: Punch Bowl
Pattern Name: Woman on a Camel
Date: c. 1800-1810
Dimensions:  D 9″
Maker:  Cambrian Pottery
Maker’s Mark: Unmarked
Description:
An earthenware punch bowl printed in blue underglaze with three patterns: Precarious Chinaman on one side of the exterior of the bowl (not illustrated here). This pattern is based on plate 50 by Jean-Baptiste Pillement in Robert Sayer’s The Ladies Amusement dated 1759. This unusual pattern consists of three figures. The central figure, with a pointed hat, is seen precariously leaning against a decorative wall or fence. One of the other figures shades him with an umbrella. A second pattern  Woman on a Camel (illustrated here), is found on the opposite side. It, too, is based on a Jean Pillement design. The inner center of the bowl is decorated with a pattern with a single fisherman with rod and line sitting on a bank with birds and trees surrounding him. A second figure can be seen above on another island. This pattern is surrounded by four floral sprays. A brick and garland border is printed on the inside of the bowl. Four different putti cartuoches are included, one with the inscription “IN TENUI LABOR” loosely transtlated as “Effort even in trivial things”. This same bowl is described in Tanner’s Swansea’s Cambrian Pottery Transferware I, pp. 128-130. They attribute the pattern to the Cambrian Pottery, c. 1800-1810.
Condition: Spider crack on underside. One half circular hairline in the base and some discoloration on inside of the bowl.