Thomas Pardoe

Thomas Pardoe

A talented enameler, who was noted for flower painting. He was born in Derby on 3rd July 1770 and was apprenticed at the Derby (Nottingham Road) porcelain factory in the 1780s. Later moving to Worcester. He painted creamware at Swansea between 1795 and 1809, coming under the influence of Lewis Weston Dillwyn (who was a botanist). The following addresses are listed in the Bristol directories: Under the Bank (1809-11), 28 Bath Street (1812-16) and Thomas Street (1820-22). He went to Nantgarw in 1821 and died in 1823. His sketch book is now in the V&A Museum.

In Bristol he was an independent decorator and gilder, painting china and pottery supplied in the white by John Rose of Coalport and possibly others. His Bristol pieces are the only ones he signed e.g., "Pardoe Bristol". I assume that only the signatures that include the word "fecit" are ones he decorated, other inscriptions simply indicating retailing. According to Pountney the enamel was fired at the Temple Pottery. He also worked on glass, as the directory listing for 1813 describe him as a "China and glass enameler and gilder, wholesale and retail". He also retailed pieces decorated at John Rose's factory, and probably from the rival Coalport factory operated by John's brother Thomas. Pardoe is particularly associated with botannical scenes.

In 1833 William Henry Pardoe, son of Thomas Pardoe, took over Nantgarw Pottery and began manufacturing stoneware bottles and brown glazed earthenware known as Rockingham pottery. He also began manufacturing clay tobacco pipes, many of which were exported to Ireland. The business continued under Pardoe's descendants, and at its peak produced around 10,000 pipes a week, until its closure in 1920, when cigarettes replaced such clay pipes.


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