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Nantgarw|næntˈgæruː|
Also Nantgarrow |næntˈgærəʊ|.
The name of a village in Glamorgan, used to designate a translucent soft-paste porcelain produced between 1813 and 1920 at the Nantgarw pottery founded by William Billingsley and Samuel Walker.
1820W. W. Young Diary 28 Oct. in E. M. Nance Pott. & Porc. Swansea & Nantgarw (1942) 524 Put Advertisement for the Nantgarw China in The Cambrian. 1820Cambrian 28 Oct. in Ibid. xiii. 395 (Advt.), For Sale by Auction... At the China Manufactory at Nantgarw on Wednesday the 8th day of November 1820. A Quantity of Nantgarw Porcelain; a considerable portion of this is enamelled and gilded in a superior style. 1849L. W. Dillwyn Let. 5 June in J. Marryat Coll. Hist. Pott. & Porc. (1850) ix. 186/2, I believe that all the China with granulated fracture was marked ‘Nantgarrow’. 1880J. Randall Hist. Madeley 206 Employing agents in Paris to buy up Sevres china in white for the purpose of having it painted in London, as Nantgarw had been. 1948W. D. John Nantgarw Porc. iii. 53 Two glazes were used on the Nantgarw porcelain. 1964M. Kelly March to Gallows i. 10 It wasn't an environment for highflown escape. Nantgarw china and French song, for example. 1973Times 16 Oct. 4/8 The Welsh porcelain brought particularly competitive prices, with one Nantgarw plate painted with fruit and flowers at {pstlg}714. |