Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
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Re: Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
Mary Gibson Horrocks is probably almost unique,as she worked both at Leach St Ives,and with Michael Cardew. This particular shape is almost atypical.
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Mary is either unique or she's not..................... and she's not.
I like her pots though.
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I like her pots though.
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One was talking about her experience. I don't know any others that did the Leach/Cardew track in the 40's/50's. Tho no doubt someone else does.Hence the 'almost'.
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It was rotten of me I know but I just couldn't stop myself!
You are quite right in that she is unique in being one of the few to have worked with Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew.
Besides Michael Cardew, who fits the bill, the others that I am aware of are Robert Blatherwick, David Stannard (from USA), Peter Stichbury (NZ potter, who worked with Cardew in Abuja), Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (Australia), Chantal Donoyer (France) and Michael Cartwright.
You are quite right in that she is unique in being one of the few to have worked with Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew.
Besides Michael Cardew, who fits the bill, the others that I am aware of are Robert Blatherwick, David Stannard (from USA), Peter Stichbury (NZ potter, who worked with Cardew in Abuja), Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (Australia), Chantal Donoyer (France) and Michael Cartwright.
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Re: Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
First one I've found although I'm sure there's loads of them about.
I couldn't read it in the shop.
It's really enjoyable/interesting buying pots bringing them home and finding out the history.
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams 2014-109](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/74/46/57/2014-109.jpg)
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams 2014-110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/74/46/57/2014-110.jpg)
I couldn't read it in the shop.
It's really enjoyable/interesting buying pots bringing them home and finding out the history.
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams 2014-109](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/74/46/57/2014-109.jpg)
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams 2014-110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/74/46/57/2014-110.jpg)
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Little bud vase with sgraffito swirls. The mark should have a running stag (a fast buck, I suppose) in the centre, but only a hoof and the tip of an antler have registered.
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams Dscf3119](https://i.servimg.com/u/f86/14/21/02/46/dscf3119.jpg)
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![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams Dscf3119](https://i.servimg.com/u/f86/14/21/02/46/dscf3119.jpg)
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams Dscf3120](https://i.servimg.com/u/f86/14/21/02/46/th/dscf3120.jpg)
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Re: Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
Vase 9.5cm high. Impressed mark with the running stag and the words "Buckfast Abbey Crafts Ceramics".
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams Dscf5114](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/14/21/02/46/dscf5114.jpg)
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![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams Dscf5114](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/14/21/02/46/dscf5114.jpg)
![Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams Dscf5115](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/14/21/02/46/th/dscf5115.jpg)
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Edited:
Mary Boys-Adams, (nee Mary Gibson-Horrocks), moved to Buckfast Abbey to teach the monks. She was deaf-mute, working there in the 60s if not longer, and had been a student of Bernard Leach
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Re: Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
She set it up in the 50s, and the Buckfast stamp was in use later, so the lack of a stamp points to an early date, but beyond that I can only speculate
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Thank you I was unsure as it looks very modern, would this be by her in your opinion or would it be marked with her initials if that were the case.
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Re: Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
It was originally set it up by the monks in 1952 before she arrived and ran it, training the monks etc, so probably not by her personally
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Ok interesting thank you
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Re: Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
Over the years I have come across a lot of Mary Gibson Horrocks\Buckfast Abbey pottery in charity shops and boot sales. To such an extent that it must have been produced in quantity by a number of people. Think Aldermaston, Winchcombe, Prinknash, Leach standard ware, Briglin sort of scale.
It had the perfect site for tourist giftware sales. Lovely building and grounds, halfway twist Sea and Moors, just of the main A38 Exeter/Plymouth trunk road with a ready source of labour.
The monks were very good at commercial ventures. The notorious Buckfast Abbey Fortified Wine (the bane of Glaswegian alcoholics) was produced there.
Proof in point, at this precise moment there are 46 items of Buckfast/Mary Gibson Horrocks items on sale on Ebay. That is a lot!
It had the perfect site for tourist giftware sales. Lovely building and grounds, halfway twist Sea and Moors, just of the main A38 Exeter/Plymouth trunk road with a ready source of labour.
The monks were very good at commercial ventures. The notorious Buckfast Abbey Fortified Wine (the bane of Glaswegian alcoholics) was produced there.
Proof in point, at this precise moment there are 46 items of Buckfast/Mary Gibson Horrocks items on sale on Ebay. That is a lot!
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Re: Buckfast Abbey Pottery - Mary Gibson-Horrocks / Boys-Adams
I have just seen that Mary Boys-Adams (nee Gibson-Horrocks) has died at the age of 97. (1923 - 2020).
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Oh that is sad. Probably nearly the last of that immediate post-war generation that worked at the Leach pottery and Wenford Bridge with Michael Cardew.
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