Re: Alan Caiger-Smith and apprentices, Aldermaston Pottery

by **HelenC** October 24th 2022, 10:58 pm

Thanks, Naomi, I did think about Simon Rich but all the examples I could find showed his monogram as having the A and R similar heights. That’s the problem with letting potters paint their monograms. Forget national identity cards, I want national pottery identity stamps to be made mandatory!

by **NaomiM** October 24th 2022, 11:03 pm

Jaki Rothery is another possibility. I’ve seen this AR mark before but it wasn’t solved

by **philpot** October 25th 2022, 9:06 am

Another possibility. Alan Caiger Smith also designed a range of pottery for Honiton Pottery. This might explain the change of clay and the not quite traditional Aldermaston design in this cup and saucer.

by **HelenC** October 25th 2022, 9:40 am

Thank you - lots more to research!

by **NaomiM** October 25th 2022, 10:42 am

The same signature on a lustre ware piece, so definitely Aldermaston

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by **HelenC** October 25th 2022, 12:52 pm

That’s really helpful, Naomi, thank you

by halliz November 7th 2022, 7:18 pm

Wondered if it was Mo Hamid?
But not his mark as far as I can tell. All thoughts welcome

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by **NaomiM** November 7th 2022, 7:30 pm

None of them quite fit. Laurence McGowan, maybe

by halliz November 7th 2022, 7:43 pm

Yes I wondered that.
Thanks so much

by **philpot** November 7th 2022, 9:23 pm

Looking at the Jane White Aldermaston book now. I don't think it is Lawrence Mcgowan. His Aldermaston mark was an A with a diminutive v at the bottom. The nearest one to it looks like Juliet Wilson, married name Harkness. She started at the pottery in 1969 and was there for 3 years.

by halliz November 7th 2022, 9:52 pm

Thanks. Will see what else I can uncover

by halliz November 8th 2022, 6:08 pm

Thanks for suggestion @philpot I have been in touch with Juliet Harkness who says as follows:
"No it’s not mine and I don’t recognise it either I’m afraid. The shape is what we called a “swallow” bowl if it’s a small cereal bowl size? but the painting is not the standard design and the painting is a little basic so it could have been an apprentice perhaps? I’m pretty sure it’s no one of my era 1968-72 ."

It is a bit bigger than what I would call a cereal bowl - 21cm diameter but likely an apprentice piece unless anyone can tell me different?

by **philpot** November 9th 2022, 9:27 am

The list we have on this thread back on page 3 looks to be taken from the catalogue of the Aldermaston exhibition at Stoke Museum in 1985. So, it's not totally complete as the Pottery itself closed in 1993.

by **philpot** November 14th 2022, 7:16 am

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Two very interesting illustrations of early lustre glazing at Aldermaston. One has Geoffrey Eastop's definite mark, and the other looks as though it has as well, although it might be Alan Caiger Smith's. The lustre glazing is by no means perfect, but it is a good way to getting there. Now Geoffrey Eastop left Aldermaston pottery in 1962, so that dates these pieces to some of the earliest lustre produced at Aldermaston. The first exhibition they had of lustre work was at Henry Rothschild Primavera London shop in 1963. So these may have come from that exhibition.

by **philpot** November 14th 2022, 8:33 am

22 Crawford St. wrote:The book has 45 marks in it's index and the list on this thread has 25 marks.

The catalogue of the 1993 exhibition lists over 60 potters who worked at Aldermaston. A number of them did not have marks tho.

by **22 Crawford St.** November 14th 2022, 9:44 am

I have one of these and I think it's got ACS mark

by **benwilliams** December 9th 2022, 11:56 am

Aldermaston jug , maker? Looked on makers list but I’m still unsure

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by **philpot** December 9th 2022, 11:56 am

Edgar Campden.

by **benwilliams** December 9th 2022, 12:21 pm

I wasn’t sure - thank you

by **philpot** December 9th 2022, 12:38 pm

The signatures are almost all on the Aldermaston thread.

by **NaomiM** February 26th 2023, 1:17 am

Unusual pair of bowls by Aldermaston Pottery. AB mark possibly by Christopher Bayley - Edited to add, possibly Anne Blakiston (also called Anne Blakiston-Houston) who had an AB mark and was there from 1961.
AE mark for Geoffrey Eastop - who left in 1960, so maybe Blakiston finished the set

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by Ness March 12th 2023, 2:41 pm

Hi
Could anybody help me identify this peice and the makers mark. The dish is slightly foreshortened.
Many thanks
Ness

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by **denbydump** March 12th 2023, 2:59 pm

Aldermaston Pottery by Edgar Campden.

Strange, looks like they ripped off the Poole pottery "Spear" shape!

by **22 Crawford St.** May 14th 2023, 10:53 pm

Four tall goblets from Julian Bellmont 79-93 (I think). Has an additional unusual impressed J and a strange date mark that looks like a P with a dot under.

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by **22 Crawford St.** May 15th 2023, 6:57 pm

Strange - there is a

AM for Simon Middleton (1978-80)

set of goblets on ebay with the same P. PAINTED DATE?

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