Re: Dartington Pottery

by **dantheman** March 19th 2021, 10:48 pm

no, not her style

by kplandarch March 21st 2021, 8:37 pm

do you know who did design it?

by **potterymad62** March 22nd 2021, 5:42 pm

kplandarch wrote:do you know who did design it?

Maybe Janice Tchalenko work.

by **NaomiM** May 2nd 2021, 5:40 pm

Hinchcliffe & Barber and Dartington collaboration. Pastel pink and green and white coloured tableware. I'm assuming RC is the designer.

by terryr May 7th 2021, 6:46 pm

I know this large bowl (10-inch diameter) is Dartington, but I can't see this pattern on the Dartington thread on this forum. Neither can I make out the signature. Any help with identifying either would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

by **dantheman** May 7th 2021, 9:12 pm

I can see the Dartington D and squiggles but doubt there's a signature.
A rare design, possibly a one off

by **NaomiM** May 7th 2021, 9:23 pm

Possibly one of the newer designs, after Grayshott took over. Could be a decorator’s monogram after the Dart mark but that won’t be a designer’s signature

by terryr May 7th 2021, 10:50 pm

Thanks, that's helpful. Now I look again at the base, I can see that some of the marks appear to be part of the pattern. Aside from the Dartington mark, the remainder appears to be a C and a W. It doesn't look like the usual Claire Woodall monogram, but given the thickness of the brush used, and the small area available (less than 3-inches diameter), that might not have been possible. But I guess it'll have to remain unknown.

by **dantheman** May 8th 2021, 12:36 am

you could contact the pottery

by terryr May 8th 2021, 9:15 am

I'll give that a try. Thanks again.

by **benwilliams** August 22nd 2021, 2:40 pm

Squared thrown vase with unusual pattern .
I found one other that had been auctioned and identified as Tchalenko.
Is that right and is there a name?
Light blues, red and Sandy yellow colours. Dart mark
Thank you!

by **denbydump** August 22nd 2021, 4:09 pm

It's not in the Tchalenko book, but she used those colours, and that shape of vase at Dartington, so probably yes.

by **studio-pots** August 22nd 2021, 5:05 pm

Not sure what the "Tchalenko" suggestion is suppose to mean. Not that she might have decorated it, I assume?

by **dantheman** August 22nd 2021, 6:42 pm

She did decorate pots at Dartington but generally, she came up with designs for the paintresses

by **NaomiM** August 22nd 2021, 7:02 pm

There is a Grayshott design that has a similar red square; it might be something new; post-merger with Grayshott Pottery

by **benwilliams** August 22nd 2021, 9:22 pm

Thank you everyone.I’ll check out some more.,

by **denbydump** August 22nd 2021, 11:07 pm

dantheman wrote:She did decorate pots at Dartington but generally, she came up with designs for the paintresses

That's what I meant.

by **studio-pots** August 23rd 2021, 9:54 am

I wasn't arguing with what you said DD just the "auctioned and identified as Tchalenko", which suggested that it might be of more value than any other Dart Pottery vase/beaker with a similar pattern. Just because she might have said "let's uses these colours with an abstract pattern similar to this".

by **philpot** August 24th 2021, 10:38 am

The Tchalenko attribution purely means that the auction from which the result was obtained did not know a lot of what he was talking about or was trying to sell it up for more than what it was! Laughter

by **benwilliams** August 24th 2021, 1:38 pm

Yes, I see plenty of that on eBay and mis-attributions. I really try to be accurate with descriptions as there’s trouble if I’m not! and I want people who buy the pots to be genuinely happy with what they’ve bought. Seems pretty likely that it was a pattern used very little that didn’t take off. For whatever reason.