Double D

Here's another shape 293, painted in DD pattern by Phyllis Way.  DD is one of my favorite geometric border patterns.  To my knowledge it's also the only one with red glaze (referred to as crimson in the pattern books).

Jam Pots to Go

It took a while to collect these three contemporary patterns jam pots, but for the last few years, like so many other pots, they have been stored away in boxes out of sight. So it really doesn't make sense keeping them, and for once I'm listening to reason (my partner!) and listing them on eBay.  From left to right patterns Ariadne (OS), Ripple (OV), and  Constelation (OK). All designed by Alfred Read in 1953.

Links to all 3 listings below

eBay listing
eBay listing
eBay listing

Newark Jam Pot

This TR or Grapes Pattern jam pot was painted by Ruth Paveley.  At £20 I thought it was a real bargain last week at Newark and brought it home with me.  Unfortunately having got it home I've spotted, what is, a very good restoration to a chip, on the lid, by the spoon hole. 

Fairs are quite tricky at times for this. As everything is sold as seen and it's hard to check in such detail, especially as sometimes, when I see a pot I like, I'm too excited to check condition well enough.  In many ways eBay is safer in that the onus really is on the seller to describe any faults, and if not you can seek some redress.  

Dorset

When I found this jam pot at Lincoln last week, I thought I new exactly what I was looking at, but now I'm a bit less sure. I'ts signed by Cynthia Bennett and is also marked with shape number 375 ABA, it has a factory mark used between 1970 and 1999.  I thought I had finally found my first pot from the Dorset range that Poole made in the late 1970's, but this pattern is quite different to the ABA pattern show in the Hayward and Atterbury book.  I'd love to hear from anyone who can tell me more.

Come and Buy Me

Today (at least) I managed to resist the collective pressure of online retailers and TV media "news" reports, and not shop online during "Cyber Monday".  

Instead me and a friend visited the antiques fair at the Lincoln Show Ground: The results of which I'll photograph and post pictures here in the next few days.  Until then, it's high time I shared this jam pot that came from eBay a month or so ago.    

It was made in 1921 or '22 from grey coloured stoneware, covered unevenly with a grey glaze and decorated with repeated "sprigs" of blue flowers, with a pattern code H.  The shape number T288 is the same as the later and much more refined shape of jam pot Poole made throughout the later '20s and '30s. But here the bowl is more barrel like, the lid much more flat in profile, and there's no teardrop shaped finial.

It does feel like it comes from a more simple and less commercial time.  Which in 1921 must have been the very impression the makers intended. 

Mmmm

This one came with the old jam staining and a glued chip on the lid close to the spoon hole. Occupational hazards for a jam pot really, and I dont mind this time as the pattern is so good and rare.   

Tall Jam Jar

There doesn't seem to be very much daylight around at the moment for taking new photos.  This pot came from eBay a couple of months ago when the days were a little longer.  You don't see so many of these tall jam pots shape no 287, and the QO pattern is always good, this time painted by Nellie Bishton.  Nellie, or as she was later known Mrs Blackmore, had a career at Poole that spanned an amazing 49 year, from 1927 until 1976.

GZ Jam Pot

Jam pots were some of the first Poole pots I collected.  It's no surprise - they're small, reasonably priced and have that lovely Poole teardrop finial.   This one I found on eBay recently, the pattern, GZ, is simple but quite effective, and I think fairly uncommon.  It was painted between 1934 and 1937 by Iris Skinner.  

Tomorrow, I'm off to The Newark Antiques Fair.  It will be the first time I've seen it on the first day, but then on day two I've often wondered (or annoyingly been told by a holder of a Poole depleted stall) exactly what I've missed.  So a friend has agreed to skip work with me, and splash out on the extra admission, at least for one time, and I'm hoping to be the first to spot more Poole gems like this.

Wonderful Elsecar

I found this rare old jam pot at last Sunday's antiques fair held at the Elsecar Industrial Museum. The stall holder told me that it has been sold, in a mixed box, at an auction in North Yorkshire a few days before. It's a less common shape (no. 286) than the rounder no. 288 jam pot, and it's painted in the same fantastic YM chevron pattern as this vase, which joined my collection just a few weeks ago.  This beauty is marked with the :) mark for Dorothy James and dates from the late 1920's.

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Train Spotting Bokhara

Here's another "Contour" range shape jam pot painted in Bokhara colours. This time in OEA pattern painted by Silvia Davis. An OEB pattern version can be seen here.

Extra Bokhara

This Jam pot is painted by Mary Lowman in the OEB pattern designed by Robert Jefferson to decorate the Bokhara Jars that Poole was making in the 1960s.  The preserve jar shape, certainly the lid, seems to be more in the style of the "Contour" tableware that Jefferson designed about the same time.  There seems to have been quite a bit of rather free and easy mixing of patterns and shapes at Poole.

Another mustard pot

You can never have too many of these tiny little 2 inch mustard pots.  This one was painted in QO pattern by Ethel Barrett between 1925 and '27.  I don't know whether these would have been sold sepately, or as part of a cruet set originally, but it was for sale alone on eBay last week, so maybe has just outlived its companions.

Two Swallows Don't Make a Summer, or Spring

Here's another surprisingly animated little bird that I found on eBay last month.  The SN pattern was painted by Marian Heath in the early 1930's on this six inch tall biscuit jar (shape 230).  It has it's original wicker  handle, and later hairline cracks and a matched lid.

A New Year Restoration

This jam pot (260/AS) has featured on my blog three times now. Once when brought from eBay, again when sold on eBay and now in the collection afterlife (they never really leave), complete with lid that was patiently waiting to be reunited .  It's not just a matter of finding any excuse to post a photo again, but I realised, before dispatching it, that I ought to get a photo of it looking complete (minus the wicker handle), with a matched EE pattern Jam pot lid.  And if does tie in nicely with the post below.  

So with some regret it's the last post for this AS bird and 2011. 

Happy New Year

Rare Old Bird

I've had this pot for a year or so but not posted it until now as I was waiting to match it up with a lid first.  I still haven't managed that, so now have decided to return it to eBay and give it a final showing before it goes.   Shape number 260 it's just 3 inches tall (7.5 cm) and the pattern AS was painted by Gwen Dry who painted pots at Poole between 1928 and 1935.

Tiny Mustard Pot - Shape 276

Photos sometimes give no sense of scale.  This mustard pot is under three inches tall, so it's a great size for this little geometric pattern (VL) that just about covers the whole surface.  I found it on eBay earlier this month.  Sadly there's a big hairline crack running almost from the rim to the base, but at least that meant it wasn't expensive at just 99 pence.

Another Bokhara Preserve Jar for the collection

This is number 13 for me, so nearly halfway to having the full set that Robert Jefferson designed. This one is called 655/OB.A and is already posted on the main site.

Swaps

The latest addition to my Bokhara jar collection. Designed by Robert Jefferson in 1964, these hand-thrown jam pots (shape number 657) are painted in OGB pattern by Mary Lowman on the right, with the one on the left carrying mark for Silvia Davis, although she's recorded as working only until 1962.

Anyway the two pot appeared separately on eBay last week and after winning the first (no.12 in my collection), I thought the second could be used to swap with any other Bokhara fans, or maybe might even get used for jam!

Poole Bokhara Jam Pot 657JB

This Poole Pottery jam pot is one of 29 similar pots from the Bokhara range designed by Robert Jefferson in 1964. To me this is number 11 my other 10 can be seen here.  It's another challenge and as I get closer to number 29 they will become harder to find.  

Extra XP Pattern Pot

This pattern is one of mine, and many peoples, favourites.  It's one of the few that has a nickname -Sweet Pea, and has lovely Art Deco motifs. The vase is shape number 199, about six inches tall, marked as TY pattern, ( I cant distinguish this from XP) and was painted by Miriam Jones.  I found it on Ebay last week. 

The Jam pot was one of the first Traditional pots that I collected.  It's shape number 288, XP pattern painted by Marjorie Batt.  Both the vase and jam pot date to about 1935.

I also have a shape 117 XP pattern vase- the same shape as the 199 vase, but 3 inches shorter in height. I know somewhere there must be a 115 shape in this pattern (that would be a middle-size) which I've yet to find.  There would be some satisfaction in showing an appearance of rationality to my collection, even if the actual shape numbers, and pattern names don't quite make sense.  To fund my search the jam pot was put up on eBay last night. 

More photos on on eBay here.