Michael Cole, MC mark

by twopleasemarker Mon 07 Oct 2013, 8:57 pm

Hi,
Could anyone help in identifying these?

by **studio-pots** Mon 07 Oct 2013, 10:11 pm

I think that they are by Michael Cole, who started potting with Colin Pearson and worked on his own in Caernarfon from 1966.

Don't know what the paper label is.

by **studio-pots** Mon 07 Oct 2013, 10:15 pm

He was a member of the CPA (Craft Potters' Association) but I have no record of him after the mid 1980s.

by twopleasemarker Tue 08 Oct 2013, 6:12 pm

Thanks for the information. Much appreciated.

by **Pugmill** Mon 03 Feb 2014, 7:07 pm

Hi,

Can somebody help ID this bowl with impressed mark CM

thanks

by **NaomiM** Mon 03 Feb 2014, 7:44 pm

Michael Cole

by **studio-pots** Mon 03 Feb 2014, 8:47 pm

Michael Cole trained with Colin Pearson in 1964/5 and then set up his own pottery in North Wales in 1966. He was a member of the CPA (Craftsmen Potters Association) and in their book of members that was published in 1986 it stated, ".... except for the past eighteen months when a temporary condition, affecting one hand, made working with clay inadvisable".

He didn't appear in subsequent issues of the book.