TA mark - Tim Andrews

A dinky prettylittle bulbous vase with a Clear A or IA mark. Now  I have gone through all the likelihoods but but nothing quite seems to fit. Any ideas?

You are absolutely brilliant Naomi. Thanks so much. Comparing it carefully with some of the Raku Tim Andrews I have. I think you are spot on. I just did not associate it with Tim Andrews David Leach style. I thought it looked a lot more like a David Frith pupil style.

Tim was an apprentice with David in 1978/9 and this was followed by a further period of training at Dartington, so this pot clearly fits the style of both establishments at the time he was there.

I seem to remember Tim telling me that it wasn't until returning to Lowerdown to share David's pottery space in 1986 that he began to experiment and develop the raku work for which he is best known. He remained there for 7 years and his thinking was that if he was making work similar to David then visitors to the pottery would buy David's and not his. Logic that you can't argue with.