Lunchtime Reading

Although my new job (5 days a week, with far too much of that spent looking at a computer screen) may have dampened my blogging ardor, it has also given me access to a library full of Poole Pottery knowledge. This ad appeared in "The Pottery Gazette and Glass Trade Review" in 1932.  
Over several lunch breaks so far I've thumbed 3 or 4 years worth of the Gazette, but there's another couple of decades of back issues to keep me busy and then I get started on "Tableware International".

Potpourri

I found this potpourri jar on eBay at the end of last year.  It's painted in XK pattern by a decorator whose mark (below) I've seen several times before on pots from the first half of the 1920's, but who isn't listed in the reference books.  The pot is relatively early (mid 1920's), and though made from the usual red earthenware it feels like it,s been fired at a higher temperature and thrown quite thinly, perhaps to allow for the piercings. 

Anyone with ideas about the mark, please let me know.

The markers mark

James Radley Young was making vases like this one, unglazed and decorated in "Egyptian" patterns, during the first world war. This vase, has an impressed Carter and Co Poole signature on the base, so it dates from some time prior to 1921.  It also has a rather nicely impressed thumb mark, visible on the photo about half way up on the right.  Picking the vase up now, the indentation fits the side of my thumb quite snugly, as it would have done the potter as he or she first lifted it from the wheel.

546 and 205

Two HI pattern spill vases, the smaller one shape no. 205 is the more recent addition to my collection, and I think the better proportioned of the two for being smaller.

Back to Black

There's a skill in photographing black vases against a black back-drop that I do not possess, but given this blogs house style, I do try.  The small vase is the new one, to go alongside it big brother, both from the Bokhara range of jars designed by Robert Jefferson in 1964. 

Merry Christmas

 1966 Delphis plate painted by Shirley Campbell.  The third post in one week, must mean I'm on holiday.   Happy Holidays to everyone.

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.   

Mmm

I found some M pattern egg cups a couple of months ago.  They were the first examples of this pattern I'd seen after a few years of collecting.  Then this month tow more examples appear on eBay.  The first this vase, shape 341, and in the same week a jam pot (see next post).  Either I'm very lucky or else the pattern is less rare than I thought.  

The observant collector may also have noticed a) the yellow circle missing from pattern at the centre of the photo, and b) how there are similarities with the more common FK of "oak leaf" pattern shown here .

Plate or Pot Stand

When I saw this plate on eBay I thought it might have been the base for a cheese dish, and was even more convinced once it arrived, because it's so flat in profile.  But having just looked through the Hayward and Atterbury Poole Pottery book, there's a similar, shape number 282, listed simply as a plate, so after all I think this is a complete thing, with no missing parts.  The pattern is TK painted by Gertie Warren, between 1925 and 1927.