Fosters Studio Pottery Co.
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Nik- Number of posts : 257
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Fosters Studio Pottery
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.
potterymad62- Number of posts : 924
Location : Redruth Cornwall
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That is a lovely tankard. It's a shame they mostly did the boring old honeycombe glaze.
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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.
potterymad62- Number of posts : 924
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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.
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t11298-fosters-pottery?highlight=fosters
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t11298-fosters-pottery?highlight=fosters
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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...
Howard Lincoln- Number of posts : 44
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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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LindaG- Number of posts : 7
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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?
philpot- Number of posts : 6735
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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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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!
LindaG- Number of posts : 7
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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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