New find

I found this little pot (CN/370) on eBay earlier this year.  It's just 7.5cm tall and was painted by Ruth Pavely.  The grey ground dates it to sometime between 1922 and '24. 

Keeping busy

I spent a rainy morning yesterday photographing all the pots I've collected over the last few years and never posted on this blog.   Even without buying more, I've got a supply of photos to keep me busy posting for the next couple of years.  This one is shape number 202 and painted in the PU pattern by Eileen Prangnell in the early 1930's and I won it at an auction with an online bid last summer.

The rumours of my death....

 

Whatever kept me away for so long!  

The collecting has continued, though slowed to a more manageable pace, over the past 4 years.  It's also continued to narrow in focus on the 1920s and early '30s Poole era, and some more of my 60's pots have gone the way of all pottery onto eBay.  So there is quite a backlog of pots to post and now seemed a good time to start, if only to keep me from getting even more embroiled in TERF wars on Twitter.

This unglazed YM Pattern, shape 612 vase arrived cheep and dirty, but hairline crack sadly revealed by cleaning