	South Wales LLANELLY (Wales) Dates: Known also as South Wales Pottery, the enterprise was started in Llanelli, South Wales in 1840 by William Chambers. It had several owners and mixed success but for most of its existence it produced good quality transfer printed ware for domestic use. The firm also produced mocha-ware and spongeware, both simple systems of creating inexpensive decorative patterns. In the late nineteenth century it developed a distinctive hand-painted ware which included 'Persian Rose' and a cockerel design. The development is parallel with a number of other manufacturers in the period including Bristol, Wemyss in Scotland and Quimper in Brittany. Two decorators are particularly well known. Samuel Shufflebotham created sophisticated designs of roses, fruit, Dutch boys and girls and sailing boats. Sarah Roberts is generally believed to be the main painter of the much more naïve design of the cockerel now so strongly identified with Llanelly. The firm closed in 1922. A comprehensive display of Llanelly Pottery can be seen at Parc Howard, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.

South Wales LLANELLY (Wales)

Dates:

Known also as South Wales Pottery, the enterprise was started in Llanelli, South Wales in 1840 by William Chambers. It had several owners and mixed success but for most of its existence it produced good quality transfer printed ware for domestic use. The firm also produced mocha-ware and spongeware, both simple systems of creating inexpensive decorative patterns. In the late nineteenth century it developed a distinctive hand-painted ware which included 'Persian Rose' and a cockerel design. The development is parallel with a number of other manufacturers in the period including Bristol, Wemyss in Scotland and Quimper in Brittany. Two decorators are particularly well known. Samuel Shufflebotham created sophisticated designs of roses, fruit, Dutch boys and girls and sailing boats. Sarah Roberts is generally believed to be the main painter of the much more naïve design of the cockerel now so strongly identified with Llanelly. The firm closed in 1922.

A comprehensive display of Llanelly Pottery can be seen at Parc Howard, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.