Dartington Pottery

I have one of these with a Dartington mark.

Thank you everyone for your input. Can I ask you Davee, is it the same pattern and glaze?

Yes it is identical, if I ever find it in my mountain of boxes I'll get a picture.

Thanks. Mountains of boxes sounds exciting or overwhelming!

Maybe early work from his son Jeremy ?

Nothing there to suggest it is anything but a Dartington lidded dish without a mark. The decoration just looks typical Dartington from a specific period to me. Nothing really to suggest any specific link with David Leach either. Maybe that is just some attribution made to try and make these things seem more worthy or valuable.

This is a Dartington Pottery small bowl, but I can't identtify the decorator's mark on the bottom. I've checked through a list of DP decorators but nothing matches. I've recently seen the same mark on 2 DP bowls on Ebay.
I wonder is anyone able to help please
Thank you

it looks like decoration to me?

OK! I have been assuming it was a signature.

Thank you!

that's possible still

Seeing the other two bowls on Ebay with nearly identical marks made me think it was a signature rather than a decorative flourish!

Probably a signature but it’s from Dartington’s standard range and they employ a number of decorators so difficult to know which one signed this piece. It doesn’t really matter who’s monogram it is tbh, unless you’re a relation.

grapevine design

If you ever see one of these pentahedral dishes with the blue inside, forgo thinking "I've got enough of those", always pick it up and look on the bottom, you might be in for a nice surprise.

shanti22 wrote:Hi, have recently stumbled on your interesting site, and joined. I am Marianne de Trey's daughter, brought up at Dartington. If I can be of any use in identifying her pots, or indeed her students' or co-workers' work, then I wd be glad to help. best wishes

Wonderful. There are a few pieces which we’re stumped on

NaomiM wrote:I think those large Dart stamps are early ones

I bought pottery with the large mark directly from Dartington in 2009 after their move to Grayshott

Hi

One of those pieces which really grows on you. Unfortunately the camera does not like non daylight but a lovely speckled blue glaze.

The base rim has one of the smallest marks I've ever seen and certainly so for the piece's size.

Looks like LP but could be LD and I'm thinking one of the later Leach's perhaps?

Thanks

Not Leach. That was the original Brown, brown, brown pottery . I agree, looks like the Dart/Dartington mark. Equally the vivid colour points that way as well.

Dartington Pottery; Ruskin glaze

Cheers everyone - should have recalled that mark being local... aging.... it's a most wonderful thing :0(

Can anyone ident my jug think it studio pottery have sent a pic with the impressed makers mark

Its a Dart/Dartington Pottery mark. They started down at Dartington in Devon the early 1970's, and were taken over by Grayshott Pottery in the early years of 2000. They are renowned for Bright colourful designs.
We have a long thread on the pottery here.
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t240-dartington-pottery?highlight=dartington

Thanks was it designed by PETRA TILLY