Chelsea Pottery (London)

NaomiM wrote:I also have this cake or cheese cover (missing its base), and it's only just struck me - comparing it side by side with the plate - that it might also be by Chelsea Pottery.
It's made from the same red pottery as the plate, and has the same 'soft focus' decoration.
There's a decorator's name or initials on the front - which I think says Jon or Jan - but unlike the plate there's no 'chelsea pottery England' inscribed by hand on the back. (The makers mark was probably on the missing base).
I found it in a local charity shop a few years ago.

 
This is Joyce's.

 

 

i've liked it... interesting signature...
looked through the whole thread and think it might be "AD" for Audrey Durnan?
  
it's very hard to find british pottery here in germany...
just tons of ugly wgp
(most of it that ugly that not even the brits would buy it)  

Wish we had a better list of signatures, like the Aldermaston one. I like that one styleinvasion. Is it thin and lightly thrown?

The Naomi cover piece that AJD01 say is by JM is the same as my candlesticks. Very similar style and glazes.

yes it's very thin and lightly thrown

Someone delighted in throwing those dishes wafer thin, I have some. Was it Joyce? Certainly and experienced thrower. I don't know how Chelsea worked - did someone churn out blanks and others decorate?

I couldn't resist the face on this golfer,I'm sure I've met this guy in the flesh !

Whilst this dish is not marked on the back, i feel fairly confident putting it straight here instead of the 'id' thread.  Mods, please move if you feel necessary.

Haven't got a clue to the artist or even what animal this is!  

looks like a very unusual design I seem to remember the cat (leopardus) is from South America

but with a wolf face   

I took an image of the large dish below on my phone some time ago, saying that I would see if I could find out the artist who decorated it.

Joyce Morgan I think

Pip wrote:A few pieces of Chelsea Pottery I've owned (all by my favourite Chelsea paintress, Joyce Morgan).

the owl plate has a similar monogram

Thanks for that and it looks similar - now all I have to do is remember who owns the fish dish.  

Any ideas please on this bowl,marked Chelsea UK and signed on front mT. Is this actually Chelsea Pottery? and does anybody recognise initials, thanks


 


   

Yes it is Chelsea, but MT doesn't tally with anyone on the list of decorators I have.
I think there are quite a few unrecorded ones.

I have dug out an old article on Chelsea with some of the decorators names which
may tally with some of the unknown signatures, some may have been mentioned
already, but it's just easier to post the lot.

Joyce Morgan
Patience Ifill
Daphne Cork
Beryl Owen
Eve Gosset
Susan Windsor
Barbara Ross
Hazel Livi (sic).
Kim Warman

Did Alan Brough work there also? maybe mixing it up with Celtic

Betty Dennison Hunt (mainly did the casting)
Jim Rose (mainly did the firing)
Joan ??? (mainly slab work)
Frank Spindler (sp. ?) (throwing and maker of Judge figures and the round plates of different sizes)
Joyce Morgan (decorator)
Barbara Ross (decorator)
Jenny Delange (sp. ?) (decorator/ New Zealand) [her sgraffito is a sylised "del"]
Hazel Levy (decorator)
Audrey Durnan (decorator)
Brian Hubbard (chief)
JEM is (technically) Joyce Elaine Morgan
Amanda Barrie
Jannick Le Troadec
Patience Ifill
Daphne Cork
Beryl Owen
Eve Gosset
Susan Windsor
Barbara Ross
Hazel Livi (sic).
Kim Warman
Margaret Tomlins
Jane Blackburne

22 Crawford St. wrote:Someone delighted in throwing those dishes wafer thin, I have some. Was it Joyce? Certainly and experienced thrower. I don't know how Chelsea worked - did someone churn out blanks and others decorate?

I have an example of the real "Wafer-thin" pottery, you can actually bend it, honestly! well you could until I broke it!
A very light, delicate piece, incised "Chelsea pottery" with the ying & yang mark. Foil label says "Made in England"
I've never seen another anything like it. Unsigned, 12 in diameter.



 

Another Chelsea dish, signed JB which I believe to be Jane Blackburne

     

Another signature that maybe needs to go on the list

vanmann- MT is Margaret Tomlins and JB is Jane Francisca Blackburne

thanks Wendy, can you add any more names to our list?