{"id":520,"date":"2016-08-05T19:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethanlloydworthington.com\/?post_type=nor-portfolio&p=520"},"modified":"2019-06-11T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:04:27","slug":"have-you-seen-this-cup-it-could-be-anywhere-here-really","status":"publish","type":"nor-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/bethanlloydworthington.com\/?nor-portfolio=have-you-seen-this-cup-it-could-be-anywhere-here-really","title":{"rendered":"Have you seen this cup? It could be anywhere here, really. 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you seen this cup? It could be anywhere here, really.<\/em> 2015
\nPorcelain, needlepoint tapestry and dye on canvas, wood
\nMade for the exhibition Many a Slip at Marsden Woo Gallery, curated by Alison Britton.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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My cup comes from a reference to an “antient family cup” described by Thomas Pennant in A Tour of Wales, 1778, following his visit to my ancestors at Cwm Bychan. I don’t know anyone who has seen it since, maybe it never existed at all. But we could look for it. I’ve made a map of the area and a reconstruction of what the cup may or may not have looked like.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Pennant\u2019s account, 1778 \u00a0\u2013<\/p>\n

FROM Corsygedol<\/em>, I pursued my journey towards Harlech<\/em>; but, on the road, was tempted, by my constant fellow-traveller, the reverend John Lloyd<\/em>, to make a small deviation to visit a near relation of his, who lived a few miles to our right, in his antient territories of\u00a0Cwm Bychan<\/em>. We approached it throughGlyn Artro<\/em>, a little valley, watered by a river of the same name, and prettily wooded. The view upwards was extremely picturesque, of a conic rock, skirted by a sweet grove; and beyond soared the naked mountains, which bounded the object of our ride.<\/p>\n

AFTER passing through the wood, and ascending Dinas Porchellyn<\/em>, we had before us a wild horizon of rocks and rocky mountains. Even these tracts, unfriendly as they seem to vegetation, had once been covered with venerable oaks; and there still remained a few, between eight and nine feet in circumference. We went under their shade, above a rapid torrent, with a delightful view before us of a true wooden Alpine<\/em> bridge, and a small mill; and, a little farther, an antient arch, flung from rock to rock, giving passage over a still and black water, shaded by trees. Ford the river again near Llyn Sarph<\/em>, orThe Serpent\u2019s Hole<\/em>. Wind up a rocky stair-case road, and arrive full in sight ofCwm Bychan<\/em>, embosomed with rocks of magnificent height. After a short ride, high above a lake of the same name, descend, and reach the house of the venerable Evan Llwyd<\/em>, who, with his ancestors, boast of being lords of these rocks, at lest since the year 1100. This, and the fortified pass of Drws Ardudwy<\/em>, were most probably occupied by the sons of Cadwgan<\/em>, in their contests with the sons of Uchtryd ap Edwyn<\/em>, whom they at last expelled the country.<\/p>\n

THE following, as it is the true descent of Mr. Evan Llwyd<\/em>, and my fellow-traveller, who being brother\u2019s children, are eighteenth in descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn<\/em>, so it is a genuine copy of the form of a British<\/em> pedigree;<\/p>\n

Evan ap Edward, ap Richard, ap Edward, ap Humphrey, ap Edward, ap Dafydd, ap Robert, ap Howel, ap Dafydd, ap Meirig Llwyd o Nannau, ap Meirig Vychan, ap Ynyr, ap Meuric, ap Madog, ap Cadwgan, ap Bleddyn, ap Cynfyn,<\/em> prince ofNorth Wales<\/em> and Powys a<\/del><\/em><\/p>\n

I was introduced to the worthy representative of this long line, who gave me the most hospitable reception, and in the style of an antient Briton<\/em>. He welcomed us with ale and potent beer, to wash down the Coch yr Wden<\/em>, or hung goat, and the cheese, compounded of the milk of cow and sheep. He likewise shewed us the antient family cup, made of a bull\u2019s scrotum, in which large libations had been made in days of yore. The family lay in their whole store of winter provisions, being inaccessible a great part of the season, by reasons of snow. Here they have lived for many generations, without bettering or lessening their income; without noisy fame, but without any of its embittering attendants.<\/p>\n

Of this house was the valiant Dai Llwyd<\/em>, to whom is said to have been addressed the noted Welsh<\/em> tune, Ffarwel<\/em> DAI LLWYD, on occasion of his going with Jasper Tudor\u00a0<\/em>b<\/del> and\u00a0Owen Lawgoch<\/em>, to fight Risiart Frawdwr<\/em>, orRichard the Traitor<\/em>, by which name the Welsh\u00a0<\/em>stigmatized Richard<\/em> the Third.<\/p>\n

THE mansion is a true specimen of an antient seat of a gentleman of Wales<\/em>. The furniture rude: the most remarkable are the Cistiau Styffylog<\/em>, or the great oatmeal chests, which held the essential part of the provision.<\/p>\n

The territories dependent on the mansion, extend about four miles each way, and consist of a small tract of meadow, a pretty lake swarming with trout, a little wood, and very much rock; the whole forming a most august scenery. The naked mountains envelope his vale and lake, like an immense theatre. The meadows are divided by a small stream, and are bounded on one side by the lake; on the other, by his woods, which skirt the foot of the rocks, and through which the river runs, and beyond them tumbles from the heights, in a series of cataracts. He keeps his whole territory in his own hands; but distributes his hinds among the Hafodtys<\/em>, or summer-dairy houses, for the convenience of attending his herds and flocks: he has fixed his heir on another part of his estates. His ambition once led him to attempt draining the lake, in order to extend his landed property: but, alas! he gained only a few acres of rushes and reeds; so wisely bounded his desires, and saved a beautiful piece of water. He found on one side a stratum of fine white earth, about half a yard thick, which I perceived was what mineralogists dignify with the name of Lac Lun\u00e6, and Agaricus Mineralis c<\/del>.<\/p>\n

a<\/del> Numbers of respectable families in this country, are of the same descent.<\/p>\n

b<\/del> There was a person of the same name with Owen Tudor<\/em>, at the battle ofMortimer\u2019s Cross<\/em>, and beheaded with him. See Holinshead, p. 660<\/p>\n

c<\/del> A friable variety of chalk or carbonate of lime. ED.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photography, Marina Castagna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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