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TRANSFERWARE WORLDWIDE LECTURE SERIES - "I saw three ships..." - the ship and related prints used at the Swansea Pottery - a reassessment

Swansea ship jug

1PM (EST)

Title: "I saw three ships..." - the ship and related prints used at the Swansea Pottery - a reassessment

Lecturer:  Jonathan Gray, Honorary Research Fellow at the Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales

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Description: Jonathan’s lecture will consider the range of ship prints used at the Swansea Pottery and provide a revised timescale for their introduction and development. Related prints - some found together with the ship prints - will also be discussed.

Jonathan GrayOur Speaker: Jonathan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, focusing on the ceramic output from South Wales 1764-1934. He is also the meetings secretary for the English Ceramic Circle. Jonathan has written extensively on Welsh Ceramics, and published The Cambrian Company, Swansea Pottery in London 1806-1808 in 2012. He is currently finalising a book on the Art Potter Horace Elliott who was active 1880-1934 and had wares made at Ewenny near Bridgend in South Wales. Jonathan is an active member of the TCC - he presented to the group at the 2011 Baltimore meeting on Swansea's Printed Wares - A Re-assessment. His lecture is available in article form on the TCC website, read the paper.