Fosters Studio Pottery Co.

Foster's vase 14 cm tall

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.

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.

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...

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 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?

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!

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.