Studio lamp base , Cornwall?

A studio lampbase I bought from the Cornwall area on ebay 12"x5"x4", extremely heavy,it looks a bit like wallwork ,hudson, and troika influenced , any ideas ?

I have seen that mark before,obviously you have checked the Cornish pottery website....I'll let you know if I remember who's mark it is

I have had a look at that site but can't find this, ...this piece weighs 7 kilos , I have sent them a pic , surely someone will know ,
it looks a little like Jenifer jones mark , st mellion, saltash, cornwall, but I am not sure what a st mellion mark looks like .

Ed, the 'pi' type mark does look like Jennifer Jones' mark but it's usually on it's own (you've got a double 's' thing underneath) and the style of your piece isn't right for her work. So I think it's probably not her.

No ,I agree with you pip, i am clutching at straws here with this one :con2:

if the second S signifies studio then the first S might be a village in Cornwall???

See Ed, you're not the only one who can clutch at straws

Mmmm...a village in cornwall begining with S .......St ives , St Agnes, St Just,, saltash, St mellion , nup can't think of one , ..wait ,....what about .....TRURO,, we are getting good at this straw clutching , maybe we should open up a straw clutchers thread , Ed

or Devon?

Yes ,..I can see where this is going , you have cleverly made a link pertaining to devon ,as this county abuts to cornwall

your knowledge of the geography of South West England has put paid to that though :con2:

This is an email I received this morning in my quest to find out about this piece.Dear Eddie,

It looks very much like an Alan Wallwork except for the mark so I forwarded your pictures to him and got the following in his reply -

"Now JT might be Joyce Taplin and SS might be Suzanne Stainer, her sister, both of whom worked for me at Marnhull. If they did make this between them I'm surprised but my memory is not always accurate. Something lurks in the mists about them putting their initials on pots but what the idea was has long gone. What's curious is the "notching". I did this I thought only at Blackheath Road, a reference to the notching on the mooring posts on the Grand Union Canal in Watford when I was a kid. Joyce and Sue might well have seen one like that on the shelf at Marnhull and made their composite version. How did it get on the market though?"

So it could be the "two sisters" and I certainly don't have any better suggestions.

How did you obtain it? - that might help to throw a little light on things.

Best wishes

John
Harlequin Gallery

so now you need to find the girls