This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Nantgarw China Works Museum

x
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Phone:
+44 1443 844131

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


The Nantgarw China Works was a porcelain factory, later making other types of pottery, located in Nantgarw on the eastern bank of the Glamorganshire Canal, 8 miles north of Cardiff in the River Taff valley, Glamorganshire, Wales. The factory made porcelain of very high quality, especially in the years from 1813-1814 and 1817-1820. The body was extremely white and translucent, and was given overglaze decoration of high quality, mostly in London or elsewhere rather than at the factory. The wares were expensive, and mostly distributed through the London dealers. Plates were much the most common shapes made, and the decoration was typically of garlands of flowers in a profusion of colours, the speciality of the founder, William Billingsley. With Swansea porcelain, Nantgarw was one of the last factories to make soft-paste porcelain, when English factories had switched to bone china, and continental and Asian ones continued to make hard-paste porcelain.The history of the ownership and management of the factory is complicated. The first formula, used in 1813-14, gave excellent results, but had an unacceptably high wastage rate, being very prone to deform during firing. This formula was also being used at Swansea, and pieces can be impossible to allocate between the two with confidence. After a period of experimentation, in 1817-1820 the original paste formula was used again.After ceasing to make or decorate porcelain in the 1820s, and a period of closure, the pottery reopened in 1833, making earthenware and stoneware, as well as clay pipes, before finally closing in 1920, when cigarettes had replaced pipes. The site is now a museum, and also a working pottery. In 2017 a limited quantity of porcelain was made there, using the original formula, as reconstructed.
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Attraction Location



Nantgarw China Works Museum Videos

Shares

x

More Attractions in Nantgarw

x

Menu