Holkham Pottery

Following on from my last post it struck me that what I have taken as an "M" monogram may also be a "W" depending on which way up you look at it. Silly me.

Yorrick

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Hello

Interesting to compare Hercules's piece with he one here. It seems clear to me that my piece is much inferior in its accomplishment; less sharp and the shape itself seems much the less pleasing. I would take a guess that mine is the earlier of the two and seems to be trying out a design which reaches its potential in Mr Brabazon's beautiful, simple example.

I know little of these things but that is the opinion of this layman. Any comments would be very welcome

Yorrick

Hi everyone, i'm new to all this so i hope i do it right!
I have a nice tankard,it has a very faint impressed holkham and england stamp on the bottom. Hopefully, if i can upload my photos you will se the decoration,but if not i'll try to describe it to you. Its 6" high, tapering to the top, and has various figures on it with a little saying below each one, eg a peasant type lad with the words - buy a rabbit, buy a rabbit, and a 'madam' holding a fan saying come with me sir!!! plus a couple more. Along the top edge is a row of goblets,drinking vessels, pots etc in mono tone.

Has anyone any idea of an age or any history of the design etc, i would love to know.
Thank you.
ps- i tried to load the images but all i got was a box full of sample pics and adverts and terms and conditions. oh well..........

Hi I'm Keith Corrigan's grandaughter. Keith Corrigan set up Holkham Pottery in 1951 with Lady Leicester. I have a lot of information on the pottery, family knowledge from my Mother and her brothers and letters, glazing recipes, patterns/designs, newspaper cuttings etc. So if we can help in any way we would be glad to. Also if anyone has any Holkham pottery with my Grandfather's initials on the bottom I would be most interested to see it. 'KGC' or 'KC'.
I have never used a forum before so apologies if I don't do it right!

Welcome Mim

Thanks for information and the offer. It would be great if you could show us some things:

http://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t3970-how-to-upload-images-to-your-posts

xx

Welcome Mim.
We would welcome all of your information,our aim is to build a free research resource covering as many potteries as possible so the info doesn't simply get lost over time.

Very interesting - here is my piece of Holkham - I see there are some similar examples already posted.

Adam

Ooooh, that's lovely!

Carolyn