Holkham Pottery

Holkham Hall in Norfolk is a Palladian style mansion, home of the Coke family and the Earls of Leicester and built between 1734 and 1764 by the first Earl of Leicester, Thomas Coke.

A pottery was established at Holkham Hall more than 50 years ago, making it the first stately home to produce pottery on-site to sell in the gift shop. Holkham Pottery ceased manufacture in September 2007.

This is a candle holder but they produced mugs, cups, lamps - all manner of items in a similar style.

Thanks for that potted history Pip.

I have some cute Holkham bamboo style mugs:

Marked: HOLKHAM MADE IN ENGLAND T102

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Holkham Silver Jubilee Mugs T106




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Today I bought these 6 mugs (?)
They are signed at the bottem Holkham England and a number (T106?)
Can anyone tell me more?
Thank you.

Oops missed the bottem picture

Pottery set up in 1951 on the holkam hill estatein norfolk by the countess of leicester and keith corrigan . 1953 wilton elston principal designer . lamp bases , florist wares and gift wares including shakespearian series ,main designers corrigan elston , and matthew rice , company still active , courtesy of twentieth century ceramics (millers )

Hi PiP
The item displayed is not a candle holder it is in fact a sugar bowl ( catalogue no T112 i think )from the Owl Tea /Coffee set which comprised of 6 owl mugs,1 Sugar bowl,1 milk jug, 1 coffee/ tea pot, The mugs came in two sizes with the colours being Green/ Blue/Grey /Brown, With some mugs Yellow.
I worked at the pottery in 1969 and at that time it was quite busy and employed forty people.
At that time Cyril Ruffles was the main Thrower of pottery and inscribed his initials on every piece ( CR ) but sadly Cyril is no longer with us. His studio pottery has become extremeley popular today.
There were some other throwers of pottery however they did not make as many pieces as Cyril. Tom Borthwick ( TB ) Paul Trett (trett )
and quite a few students inscribed there work, And some pieces never were signed.
Another very sort after and rare collection is the snowdrop Tea Set as it was the first tea set made with the early stamp mark ( 1951 ) with the words Holkham Pottery. Hand Made In Norfolk England. In 1961 the stamp mark changed to Made In England Holkham Pottery LTD Norfolk. You can always tell if the snowdrop pieces are early because all the decoration was hand painted with the later pieces done in transfer. I do hope this is of help to you
Tom

Hi Tom - welcome to the board. I'm positive my item at the top of this thread is a candleholder - because it had wax in it (filled up in the vessel rather than a loose one inside) and had an original gold foil label saying it was a Holkham scented candle. I've got the photos of it from the top and the label somewhere - I'll bung them up here when I've located them :-) The candlewax is bright red so it's very festive looking with the green holder.

By the way, I visited Holkham Hall a couple of weeks ago on my seaside holiday - I'll put some photos of the hall up as well.

Here's a Holkham lamp that I picked up over the weekend. It's an impressive 15 inches high and the bulb sits in the base to give an sort of uplighting effect. Not sure of the age but a fantastic retro shape.

A handthrown piece:

This link may help

Holkham date mark

http://www.holkham.co.uk/downloads/WS_2008.pdf

See page 10 for some interesting info

CR for Cyril Ruffles - Holkham...... 1950's ?



I like the simple design and pinched rim.

Hello

I was browsing and trying to find some information on a Holkham piece I have and what do you know it is almost identical to the one shown above by Hercules Brabazon.

The piece I have is slightly different in that the design that runs around it is in two shades of green and is without the underlying white ring.

I think that the Holkham mark is also etched with the single letter "M".

Can anyone, particularly Hercules or Tom, tell me who's monogram this is and when the piece was produced?

I would appreciate any information anyone can provide.

Thanks

Yorrick