Stripy Purple Vase

I returned empty handed from the Lincoln antiques fair today.  There were a few Poole Pottery items at this giant fair, but only one pot that dated from before the last 1960's and that was cracked.  Which makes me realise again just how hard collecting would be without eBay.  

The 4 inch tall beaker or spill vase above, was sold online earlier this year.  Painted by Ethel Barrett during the early 1920's in LC pattern, one of several Truda Adams adaptations of the "Portuguese Stripe" patterns designed by James Radley Young in Poole's earlier years.

Size matters

Titter ye not, this shape number 85 vase is 18 inches tall, and I'm sure would have taken special skills in throwing.  It's the biggest Delphis vase Poole made and very collectable for that. It's also the first 85 shape in my collection, because I've always previously been out bid on them. It dates from the early 1970's and I think painted by Carole Holden, though she's listed as working on the Aegean range at this time. 

Very Norse

I collected this vase at the same time as the dish in the previous post. It has the original Aarhus Biuis retail sticker and a whole range of other Royal Copenhagen marks on the base.  Both pots are now in my bathroom as I recon the high fired pottery will be impervious to the changes in temperature and humidity in there, and if I happened to knock one from its perch, whatever it landed, bath, sink, tiles - would come off far worse.

Royal Copenhagan Faience Dish

I found this dish (and a vase I'll post next) at the last Weatherby Racecourse fair.  I've got a couple of smaller dishes like this.  One in a white and blue pattern and  one in these same yellow and black colours, but decorated with a stylised bird.  They date from about 1960 and if I didn't collect Poole already I might just collect these myself.

Part III - a Bluey Hue

This shape vase (585), only 3 inches tall, is one of my favorites and it shows-off the these geometric patterns (this one SP) really well.  

Boys in Blue Part II

A lot of Poole pots were coloured blue.  This vase was made in the late 1940's.  It's thrown in the white earthenware used by this time, but it's been covered with a dark red slip, over-which the blue glaze has been applied.   It has the look of the high fired red earthenware, Chinese blue vases that John Adams had developed during the 1920's. 

Boys in Blue

There was an inevitable attraction between me and this particular nursery ware mug.  Not because I've got  a thing about uniforms, or camp looking men - but because I have one of the original factory pattern sheets of this design painted by Truda Carter.  The pattern is from a series of "London Characters" designed in 1934, but this mug dates from about 1950 and was painted by Kathleen Riggs.  The pattern sheet can bee seen here http://www.robspoolepottery.co.uk/site_map.htm

Its Lloyd George!

The rather spooky pottery technique used on this plaque was developed by Wedgwood in the mid Nineteenth Century. Its was used by Carter and Co to produce a  patriotic range of plaques and teapot stands showing World War I politicians including Sir John Grey, Foreign Secretary, Field Marshall Earl Roberts and the Belgium King Albert. They came in a range of blues and also in sepia-tone which gives an even more photograph-like appearance.  They remind me of those miraculous vegetables which, when cut in half, reveal an image of Christ, or Gandhi or Elvis, or perhaps anyone famous enough to be referred to by only one name.

X factor

I'm so shallow. So when I saw this spear-shaped sweet dish on eBay, listed as the very plate that appears on page 86 of Robert Pescott-Walker's book "Collecting Poole Pottery", sucker for ceramic fame, I had to bid.  And here it is. Painted by Carol Cutler about 1970.