David Sharp

by **brin mcardle** January 5th 2015, 1:35 am

Admin wrote:. See also:
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t264-rye-pottery-and-other-potteries-of-rye

It is scratched DT Sharp Rye....but ive never seen his signature just scratched...Forgery ?

by **NaomiM** January 5th 2015, 2:54 am

Possibly, but I can't see the signature as the photo is too dark.

by **brin mcardle** January 5th 2015, 3:33 pm

Best i can get...the bowl is actually bluer

David Sharp Copie144

by **studio-pots** January 5th 2015, 5:05 pm

Like you say elsewhere, there doesn't seem much point in adding the signature. Does it look like D T Sharp and Rye underneath?

by **brin mcardle** January 5th 2015, 5:10 pm

Definitely

by **studio-pots** January 5th 2015, 5:18 pm

Then I would think that it is.

by **NaomiM** January 5th 2015, 6:56 pm

I can't see the mark, but I have a couple of similar items by David Sharp if you'd like to compare them with yours - the black mug in particular:

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t264p105-rye-pottery-david-sharp-sussex#127368

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t264p45-rye-pottery-david-sharp-sussex#105207

by stella sharp January 7th 2016, 4:29 pm

Hi. Just found this forum. I am David sharps daughter, and worked in the pottery too. We sometimes used to loose the stamps, or someone else nicked it the other side of the room so ended up scratching the name in - Dad used to tell us off though! Its certainly one of ours. At various times we used various stamps, scratched the name or painted the name, depending on who was working in what department and what was to hand.

by **studio-pots** January 7th 2016, 4:58 pm

Welcome Stella and thank you for the information. First hand experience always adds something special to these threads I feel.

by **NaomiM** January 7th 2016, 6:46 pm

Cheers, Stella. First hand info is priceless Most Excellent

by **NaomiM** January 7th 2016, 7:19 pm

Stella, this wouldn't be a David Sharp piece, would it?

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t9899-thistle-shaped-sgraffito-pot-signed-ds#78975

by **denbydump** January 7th 2016, 10:20 pm

Thanks for joining Stella, there are a lot of Rye enthusiasts, like me, here on the forum.
Great to have that unique input, and of course any comments on the main Rye thread
could be very interesting.

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t264-rye-pottery-inc-david-sharp-et-al

by **brin mcardle** January 20th 2021, 1:38 pm

I believe that this is by David Sharp when he was an apprentice at the Rye Pottery

by **denbydump** January 20th 2021, 2:03 pm

Yes, nice early piece, 1947-52.

by **NaomiM** January 20th 2021, 3:34 pm

Lovely

by **studio-pots** January 26th 2021, 6:21 pm

I know that many of David Sharp's piece can be found in Rye Pottery thread but I have always thought that he ought to have a thread of his own and so here goes.

I have a copy of the Rye Society of Artists Summer Exhibition catalogue from 1994 and it contains the following obituary by his widow, Dot. I hope no one minds me reproducing it here: -