Museum of Ceramics - Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)

The Museum of Ceramics in Caldas da Rainha was born in 1983, it is housed in the former mansion of the Viscount of Sacavem, built in the 1890s by the 2nd Viscount of Sacavém, José Joaquim Pinto da Silva (1863-1928), collector, ceramist and important patron of the ceramics in Caldas.
First I'm going to post some pictures of the current exibitions of international 20th century pottery.

Front row: Royal Doulton plate (1922-1956), 26cm and two CarltonWare small dishes (1952-1966).
Middle row: Royal Doulton vase by Gerald Gulotta (1982), 21 x 6cm and a Beswick jug (1936-1971), n.125, 19 x 17,5 X 7,5 cm.
Back row: Luxor tall jug, n.1001, 32 x 16 x 14 cm and two Beswick vases (1954-1971).




Beswick vases (1954-1971), n.1343, 25,5 x 14,5 x 11,5 cm; n.1343-2, 15,5 x 8 x 6 cm:



CarltonWare dishes (1952-1966), n.1444, 14,5 x 8,5 cm:

Crown Devon jug (1950-1980), n.1041/7, 17,7 x 12,7 x 8,5 cm:

Poole pottery large vase (1966-1980), 39 x 15,5 cm:

Poole charger (1966-1980), 35 cm:



Poole large bowl (1966-1980), 34,5 x 9 cm:

Poole, two large dishes (1966-1980), n.82, 43 x 17 cm:

Front row: Poole small dish (1955-1959), 12,5 cm and Poole large dish (1966-1980), n.4, 26,5 cm.
Middle row: Poole vase (1966-1980), n.15, 22 x 9,4 cm.
Back row: Poole large dish (1966-1980), n.4, 26,5 cm and Poole vase (1966-1980), n.32, 12 x 18,5 cm.

Poole vase (1954), 27,5 x 10,5 cm:

Poole small dishes (1966-1980), n.81, 16 x 14,5 cm:







n.41, 9,5 x 8,5 cm:

More Poole (1966-1980)



Large bowl, n.58, 34 cm:



Large dish, n.4A, 25,5 cm:



Bowl, n.88, 6,4 x 17,4 cm:



Large vase, n.93, 31,7 x 12,3 cm:

Poole charger (1966-1980), n.4, 26,7 x 4,5 cm:

In back: Poole charger, 25,5 cm:



Charger, 27,2 cm:

Three canadian large pieces, maybe someone can help identify them:

Italian wall plaques, not signed:

Italian bowl, Societa Anonima Maioliche Deruta (1950-1955), "Arlecchino" by Nino Strada (1904-1968):

Here all the pieces are from Muller Cruzem, Switzerland, except for the two vases with raffia work on the outside and the black jug that are austrian.