Poole Pottery 1960-1980 Part One

These two plates recently sold on ebay. It seems there were different sellers but both were descibed as being 'gently carved'.

I think they are glazed with the wax resist method: What do you think - are they carved?

This 8" plate below is unsigned but it has the early TV Studio mark. It sold for 350 quid:





This 10" plate below has the late studio mark and is also unsigned. It sold for nealy 300 quid:




Does anyone here have any 5", 8" or 10" carved plates?

Here are some of my Delphis 49ers that I've mounted on a piece of plywood board that's fixed to my living room wall.

They are held in place with purpose-made stainless steel pins, as earthquakes are quite common here.

The colour is a bit off as it's artificial lighting...

some cracking 49er's there. any chance of some individual pictures of the studio ones or your favourites.
cheers lee

Hi, Lee

I'll take some snaps later... here's one for now of the lot under natural light.

The Studio and earlier ones are mostly on the right. You may recognise some!




And here's the living room - the 49s are on the left wall, half cut off.

Cycladelic

I don't think that those plates are carved. As well as the different glazes resulting in different thicknesses of glaze on the plate, many of the early studio plates were hand-thrown. As a result, you get spiral impression of the potters fingers on the plate (you can see these on the pictures that you've posted).

As a result, if you run your hand over the surface of the plate, it seems slightly undulating or "gently carved".

By the way, that's a very impressive display of 49s !!

Lee - here are some of my fave 5" plates...

I love your displays Graham  

cheers for the pictures, sure I have owned a couple of your 49er's at some point

I picked this saucer up and wonder if there was once a matching cup - or perhaps it was painted by mistake, as it's the same size as a 5" shape 49 dish.

Has anyone ever seen a Delphis cup and saucer?

the saucers got pulled into the 49 production occasionally,probably an oversight.
No cups were ever made.

If craft section ran out of blanks then they would take items from tableware production. Shape 3A and 4A dishes are similar size to std shape 3 and 4 but had no footrim and were obviously side plates. I've also seen small dessert bowls used in place of shape 56 bowls.

Hi

Bought this dish - looked up mark but cant seem to find, any help appreciated.

Adam

Donna Brogan?

Adam20 wrote:Hi

Bought this dish - looked up mark but cant seem to find, any help appreciated.

It looks like the mark of Pamela Bevens from around 1971.

ppcollectables wrote:If craft section ran out of blanks then they would take items from tableware production. Shape 3A and 4A dishes are similar size to std shape 3 and 4 but had no footrim and were obviously side plates. I've also seen small dessert bowls used in place of shape 56 bowls.

Thanks to both you and Dan... now I won't need to waste my time looking for a non-existent cup.

truk10 wrote:Cycladelic

I don't think that those plates are carved. As well as the different glazes resulting in different thicknesses of glaze on the plate, many of the early studio plates were hand-thrown. As a result, you get spiral impression of the potters fingers on the plate (you can see these on the pictures that you've posted).

As a result, if you run your hand over the surface of the plate, it seems slightly undulating or "gently carved".

By the way, that's a very impressive display of 49s !!

Thanks for confirming what I thought.

Here's a similar one (5" dia) I picked up quite cheap recently (due to a chip on the back edge)...

lovely

Here's something rather unusual. A small pebble Studio vase (Shape 51 - 3in x2in) thrown and decorated by Guy Sydenham (you can see his impressed triangle mark on the base). It's the only pebble vase I've ever seen in black clay and the white is not actually glaze - its white clay slip into which the vase has been dipped for the large spots and drizzled round the vase to create the circles.

Another usual one. This time an Atlantis 2/2 vase (although there is no opening so more an objet d'art) streaked with Delphis orange. The second picture is looking down from above the vase.

you always find the most unusual studio pieces Kurt!  

here's the base of an Atlantis range piece,it's obviously a collaboration between Guy Sydenham and Bea Bolton but what's the mark under the Poole England stamp?

Hi Dan

That's the mark for Susan Dipple - a combined S and D which needs to rotated 90 degrees clockwise to be viewed.

It's a weird one as you can understand two people involved - one to throw the vase and the other to decorate it - but I can't figure out why three people would be involved. Maybe one threw it, one carved it and one glazed it?

a menage a trois perhaps..

ha ha.

Actually, speaking of which - am I the only person who thinks that Guy Sydenham's mermaids are just a little bit pervy?

some of them are 'anatomically complete' but I have never seen a pervy one.
Guy certainly knew the female form though