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Post by Nik November 28th 2013, 10:56 pm

Foster's vase 14 cm tall

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Post by potterymad62 February 3rd 2014, 8:38 pm

I don't like the Fosters Honeycomb design pottery. But love there studio pottery. I remember when the pottery was at West Tolgus next to Redruth Secondary School, now Tesco Garage. Here are a couple of pieces in my collection, a lovely Tankard with hand coloured fish design, and a Cornish Pixie sitting beside a log cart.


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Post by NaomiM February 3rd 2014, 8:41 pm

That is a lovely tankard. It's a shame they mostly did the boring old honeycombe glaze.

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Post by potterymad62 February 3rd 2014, 8:51 pm

Totally agree. I have included more and the marks in separate pictures, files to big to all load at one time. I once lived at Illogan, near Redruth, and have a couple of friends who used to work at the pottery.
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Post by studio-pots February 3rd 2014, 8:53 pm

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Post by NaomiM February 3rd 2014, 8:54 pm

I think their best item was the Koala money box, in various hues of honeycmbe glaze. I have a treacle brown one on my desk.

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Post by Howard Lincoln September 16th 2015, 5:50 pm

NaomiM wrote:That is a lovely tankard. It's a shame they mostly did the boring old honeycombe glaze.

I think the Honeycomb Department at Fosters had been on a daytrip to Dorset the day before the came up with this one...


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Post by NaomiM September 16th 2015, 7:54 pm

If it hadn't had that Fosters stamp on the base Id have said Continental - Ernestine or Bitossi. Apparently there may have been some collaboration with Poole.

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Post by LindaG January 16th 2023, 1:11 pm

I’ve got a lovely lime green Fosters Cornwall pottery vase which seems quite a departure from their usual muted colours. I’d love to know when it was made and if it was from a special range or by a named potterIt’s approx 6 inches tall. Thanks!Fosters Studio Pottery Co.  E7b0d910
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Post by philpot January 16th 2023, 3:34 pm

Fosters was not a studio pottery. They were more or less a standard pottery where the potters did not do individual work. Nice bright piece though. Early 70's?
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Post by NaomiM January 16th 2023, 4:01 pm

There was a Studio Pottery branch of Fosters (some examples in the Forum) but I don't know who the potters were - they would have been employees of the company; throwers and decorators. I think there was a collaboration with Poole Pottery. The glaze colours would point to a 70s date

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Post by LindaG January 16th 2023, 4:22 pm

That's interesting about the Poole collaboration - I thought 70's by those colours. It's nice to find something a bit different and I wonder how many other pieces like this were made!
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Post by potterymad62 January 16th 2023, 7:57 pm

philpot wrote:Fosters was not a studio pottery. They were more or less a standard pottery where the potters did not do individual work. Nice bright piece though. Early 70's?

Fosters pottery was involved in handmade studio pottery. From my research Fosters may have acquired studio potters from outside of the factory to produce pots for them, for what I have discovered it seems mostly commissioned pieces. Some have personal potters marks but no record of who potted them, I have included some pictures of a pot all hand thrown red earthenware with no personal mark on this one just the fosters stamped mark.

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